02149cam a2200337 a 4500 1054555 BD-DhUL 20161114161309.0 790209s1979 enk b 001 0 eng d 78067304 GB91-58757 0521224861 $25.00 (OCoLC)4858854 1054555 LC eng BD-DhUL VDU ANL 120 GES Gellner, Ernest. Spectacles & predicaments : essays in social theory / Ernest Gellner. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979. viii, 385 p. : 22 cm. Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. [370]-374. Machine derived contents note: 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 libe;ralisation manque;e; 18. Gone and gone forever; 19. The Kathmandu option; Sources; Bibliography of Gellner, 1972-78; Indexes. Philosophy Social sciences Philosophy Spectacles and predicaments Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0909/78067304-d.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0909/78067304-t.html ddc BK ANL 120 G319 123091 123091 0 0 ddc 0 120_000000000000000_GES 0 NFIC 231358 DUL DUL GEN 2016-11-14 Purchased 120 GES A263354 2016-11-14 1 2016-11-14 BK