Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History

Literature & Fiction

GELLNER, ERNEST

Contemporary

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Part of the "Paladin Movements and Ideas" series, this book is an exploration of the latter half of the 19th century, explaining where Sigmund Freud came from and why he happened when he did. The psychoanalytic movement went on to become one of the major movements in the 20th century.

The psychoanalytic movement: The cunning of unreason (Fontana movements and ideas)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Fontana Press

A distinguished scholar's provocative analysis of the political forces transforming post-Communist Eastern Europe. What is filling the void left by the fall of Communism in the ex-Soviet Union and Eastern Europe? In this groundbreaking book, one of Europe's most distinguished social anthropologists addresses this question through an examination of the idea of the civil society, which is rooted in the Enlightenment's belief that society can be organized rationally.

Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Penguin Group USA

The author argues against the idea that history is bunk and suggests that today is only possible because of the changes that took place yesterday. His philosophy of history is supported by examples drawn from a wide variety of disciplines. From the author of the Psychoanalytic Movement.

Plough, sword, and book: The structure of human history

History

University of Chicago Press

"Philosophical anthropology on the grandest scale. . . .Gellner has produced a sharp challenge to his colleagues and a thrilling book for the non-specialist. Deductive history on this scale cannot be proved right or wrong, but this is Gellner writing, incisive, iconoclastic, witty and expert. His scenario compels our attention."—Adam Kuper, New Statesman "A thoughtful and lively meditation upon probably the greatest transformation in human history, upon the difficult problems it poses and the scant resources it has left us to solve them."—Charles Larmore, New Republic

Americas

Thought and Change (Nature of Human Society Series)

Social Sciences

Saints of the Atlas (The Nature of human society series)

Africa

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Postmodernism, Reason and Religion

Routledge

Ernest Gellner made major contributions in very diverse fields, notably philosophy and social anthropology. His attacks on the orthodoxies of his time made it difficult for him to be fully accepted into either of these academic communities, but that suited him well enough: he seemed to enjoy leading a one-man crusade for critical rationalism, defending enlightenment universalism against the rising tides of idealism and relativism. His influence spread far beyond social anthropology: the fierce tone of the polemics of the 1950s against Oxford philosophers was repeated during the 1990s in tangles in the TLS with the literary critic Edward Said. For Gellner the issues were essentially the same: the vital need to refute the claim that ideas lead the world.

Ernest Gellner, Selected Philosophical Themes

This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts drawn from within a given society to its understanding, and the relation of theory to time.

Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences: Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences (Selected Philosophical Themes, Volume 1)

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