Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Spectacles and Predicaments: Essays in Social Theory

Autor Ernest Gellner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 sep 1991
This collection of essays is concerned with philosophy, politics and society. The first group examines what philosophers such as Hegel, Wittgenstein and Chomsky have said or implied about the nature of society in general. A second group examines the cognitive predicament, questions concerning the nature of the possibility of knowledge, as handled by a thinker such as Descartes, or the Pragmatist tradition. The third group handles the political predicament and deals specifically with problems such as nationalism, the nature of the liberalisation process, the future of the welfare and consumer state and the option facing underdeveloped societies. The essays deal not only with classical theories concerning these problems but also with various recent discussions. The volume will interest many individual philosophers and social theorists and those with a more general interest in our culture and political discussions.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 31226 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 468

Preț estimativ în valută:
5976 6208$ 4964£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 03-17 februarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521424349
ISBN-10: 0521424348
Pagini: 396
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Editorial preface I. C. Jarvie and J. Agassi; Part I. Understanding Humanity: 1. The absolute in braces; 2. Ethnomethodology: the re-enchantment industry or the Californian way of subjectivity; 3. A Wittgensteinian philosophy of (or against) the Social sciences; 4. Period piece; 5. Chomsky; 6. Notes towards a theory of ideology; Part II. The Cognitive Predicament: 7. Options of belief; 8. The pure enquirer; 9. An ethic of cognition; 10. Beyond truth and falsehood, or no method in my madness; 11. The last pragmatist, or the behaviourist Platonist; 12. Pragmatism and the important of being earnest; Part III. The Political Predicament: 13. Nationalism, or the new confessions of a justified Edinburgh sinner; 14. A social contract in search of an idiom: the demise of the Danegeld state; 15. The withering away of the dentistry state; 16. From the Revolution to liberalisation; 17. Plaidoyer pur une libéralisation manquée; 18. Gone and gone forever; 19. The Kathmandu option; Sources; Bibliography of Gellner, 1972–78; Indexes.

Recenzii

'Each essay is written with verve and wit and each is a splendid example of a particular genre, the erudite and independently minded commentary on contemporary cultural and political developments …' British Book News
'… another gathering of superb essays.' The Times Educational Supplement
'… Gellner's erudite analysis of our knowledge and interpretation of reality is constantly pertinent and provocative.' Psychological Medicine
'… his essays on politics in particular are vivd and thought-provoking pieces of work.' New Society

Descriere

A collection of essays concerned with some key problems in the study of philosophy, politics and society.