The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism,9780521633246

The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism

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ISBN13: 9780521633246
ISBN10: 0521633249
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-11-28
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Nationalism is one of the major social and political issues of modern times, and a subject of intense intellectual debate. The most important and influential theory of nationalism is that of Ernest Gellner (1925-1995). This volume assesses every aspect of that theory, bringing together an exceptional set of scholars to explain, criticize and move beyond Gellner's work. In doing so the book establishes the state-of-play within the theory of nationalism, and will be of wide interest to students and scholars of political and social theory, history, sociology and anthropology.

Table of Contents

List of contributors vii
Introduction 1(22)
JOHN A. HALL
Part I The making of the theory 23(68)
1 Thoughts about change: Ernest Gellner and the history of nationalism
23(17)
ROMAN SZPORLUK
2 Ernest Gellner's diagnoses of nationalism: a critical overview, or, what is living and what is dead in Ernest Gellner's philosophy of nationalism?
40(51)
BRENDAN O'LEARY
Part II The classical criticisms 91(78)
3 Real and constructed: the nature of the nation
91(16)
MIROSLAV HROCH
4 The curse of rurality: limits of modernisation theory
107(28)
TOM NAIRN
5 Nationalism and language: a post-Soviet perspective
135(23)
DAVID LAITIN
6 Ernest Gellner's theory of nationalism: some definitional and methodological issues
158(11)
NICOS MOUZELIS
Part III: Bringing politics back in 169(74)
7 Nationalisms that bark and nationalisms that bite: Ernest Gellner and the substantiation of nations
169(22)
MARK BEISSINGER
8 Nationalism and modernity
191(28)
CHARLES TAYLOR
9 Modern multinational democracies: transcending a Gellnerian oxymoron
219(24)
ALFRED STEPAN
Part IV Wider implications 243(64)
10 Nationalism and civil society in central Europe: from Ruritania to the Carpathian Euroregion
243(15)
CHRIS HANN
11 From here to modernity: Ernest Gellner on nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism
258(14)
DALE F. EICKELMAN
12 Myths and misconceptions in the study of nationalism
272(35)
ROGERS BRUBAKER
Bibliography of Ernest Gellner's writings on nationalism 307(4)
Index 311

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