The Plough, the Sword and the Book: The Structure of Human History - Softcover

Gellner, Earnest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226287025 ISBN 13: 9780226287027

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Biografía del autor

Ernest Gellner was Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics from 1962 to 1984, when he became Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. Before his death in 1995, he was Research Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism at the Central European University in Prague. His many books include "Words and Things", "Thoughts and Change", "Saints of the Atlas", "Nations and Nationalism, Culture, Identity and Politics, Plough, Sword, and Book", and "Conditions of Liberty"

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226287025
• ISBN 13: 9780226287027
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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