From reviews of the first edition: 'Brilliant, provocative. A great book.' — New Statesman 'An important book. It is a new starting line from which all subsequent discussions of nationalism will have to begin.'
Ernest Gellner Nations And Nationalism Pdf
— New Society 'A better explanation than anyone has yet offered of why nationalism is such a prominent principle of political legitimacy today. This is a terse and forceful work. The product of great intellectual energy and an impressive range of knowledge.' — Times Literary Supplement 'Periodically, an important book emerges that makes us, through the uniqueness of its theory, perceive history as we have not seen it before. Ernest Gellner has written such a volume.
Students of nationalism will have to come to grips with his interpretation of the causes for the emergence of nationalism, since he has declared that most of the previous explanations are largely mythical.' — American Historical Review First published in 1983, Nations and Nationalism remains one of the most influential explanations of the emergence of nationalism ever written. This updated edition of Ernest Gellner's now-canonical work includes a new introductory essay from John Breuilly, tracing the way the field has evolved over the past two decades, and a bibliography of important work on nationalism since 1983. Introduction, by John Breuilly 1. Definitions State and Nation The Nation 2.
Culture in Agrarian Society Power and Culture in the Agro-literate Polity Culture The State in Agrarian Society The Varieties of Agrarian Rulers 3. Industrial Society The Society of Perpetual Growth Social Genetics The Age of Universal High Culture 4. The Transition to an Age of Nationalism A Note on the Weakness of Nationalism Wild and Garden Cultures 5. What is a Nation? The Course of True Nationalism Never did Run Smooth 6. Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society Obstacles to Entropy Fissures and Barriers A Diversity of Focus 7.
A Typology of Nationalisms The Varieties of Nationalist Experience Diaspora Nationalism 8. The Future of Nationalism Industrial Culture - One or Many?
Nationalism and Ideology Who is for Nuremberg? One Nation, One State 10. Conclusion What is not being Said Summary Select Bibliography Bibliography of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Nationalism, by Ian Jamie Index.
This thoughtful and penetrating book, addressed to political scientists, sociologists, historians, and anthropologists, interprets nationalism in terms of its social roots, which it locates in industrial social organization. Professor Gellner asserts here that a society's affluence and economic growth depend on innovation, occupational mobility, the effectiveness of the mass media, universal literacy, and an all-embracing educational system based on a shared, standard idiom. These factors, taken together, govern the relationship between culture and the state.
Political units that do not conform to the principle,?one state, one culture? Feel the strain in the form of nationalistic activity.
This thoughtful and penetrating book, addressed to political scientists, sociologists, historians, and anthropologists, interprets nationalism in terms of its social roots, which it locates in industrial social organization. Professor Gellner asserts here that a society's affluence and economic growth depend on innovation, occupational mobility, the effectiveness of the mass media, universal literacy, and an all-embracing educational system based on a shared, standard idiom. These factors, taken together, govern the relationship between culture and the state. Political units that do not conform to the principle,?one state, one culture? Feel the strain in the form of nationalistic activity.
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'Prague is a stunningly beautiful town, and during the first period of my exile, which was during the war, I constantly used to dream about it, in the literal sense: it was a strong longing.' At Balliol, he studied (PPE) and specialised in philosophy. He interrupted his studies after one year to serve with the, which took part in the, and then returned to Prague to attend university there for half a term.
During this period, Prague lost its strong hold over him: foreseeing the communist takeover, he decided to return to England. One of his recollections of the city in 1945 was a communist poster saying: 'Everyone with a clean shield into the ', ostensibly meaning that those whose records were good during the occupation were welcome. In reality, Gellner said, it meant exactly the opposite: If your shield is absolutely filthy we'll scrub it for you; you are safe with us; we like you the better because the filthier your record the more we have a hold on you.
So all the bastards, all the distinctive, rapidly went into the Party, and it rapidly acquired this kind of character. So what was coming was totally clear to me, and it cured me of the emotional hold which Prague had previously had over me. I could foresee that a was due: it came in '48. The precise date I couldn't foresee, but that it was due to come was absolutely obvious for various reasons. I wanted no part of it and got out as quickly as I could and forgot about it.
He returned to Balliol College in 1945 to finish his degree, winning the prize and taking in 1947. The same year, he began his academic career at the as an assistant to Professor in the Department of Moral Philosophy. He moved to the London School of Economics in 1949, joining the sociology department under. Ginsberg admired philosophy and believed that philosophy and sociology were very close to each other. He employed me because I was a philosopher.
Even though he was technically a professor of sociology, he wouldn't employ his own students, so I benefited from this, and he assumed that anybody in philosophy would be an evolutionary Hobhousean like himself. It took him some time to discover that I wasn't. Had preceded Ginsberg as Martin White Professor of Sociology at the LSE. Hobhouse's Mind in Evolution (1901) had proposed that society should be regarded as an organism, a product of evolution, with the individual as its basic unit, the subtext being that society would improve over time as it evolved, a view that Gellner firmly opposed.
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Was totally unoriginal and lacked any sharpness. He simply reproduced the kind of evolutionary vision which had already been formulated by Hobhouse and which incidentally was a kind of extrapolation of his own personal life: starting in Poland and ending up as a fairly influential professor at LSE. He evolved, he had an idea of a where the lowest form of life was the drunk, Polish, anti-Semitic peasant and the next stage was the Polish gentry, a bit better, or the Staedtl, better still. And then he came to England, first to under Dawes Hicks, who was quite rational (not all that rational—he still had some anti-Semitic prejudices, it seems) and finally ended up at LSE with Hobhouse, who was so rational that rationality came out of his ears. And so Ginsberg extrapolated this, and on his view the whole of humanity moved to ever greater rationality, from drunk Polish peasant to T.L.
Hobhouse and a Hampstead garden. Gellner's critique of linguistic philosophy in Words and Things (1959) focused on and the later work of, criticizing them for failing to question their own methods. The book brought Gellner critical acclaim.
He obtained his Ph.D. In 1961 with a thesis on Organization and the Role of a and became Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method just one year later. Thought and Change was published in 1965, and in State and Society in Soviet Thought (1988), he examined whether Marxist regimes could be liberalized. He was elected to the in 1974. He moved to Cambridge in 1984 to head the Department of Anthropology, holding the and becoming a fellow of, which provided him with a relaxed atmosphere where he enjoyed drinking beer and playing with the students. Described by the as 'brilliant, forceful, irreverent, mischievous, sometimes perverse, with a biting wit and love of irony', he was famously popular with his students, was willing to spend many extra hours a day tutoring them, and was regarded as a superb public speaker and gifted teacher. His Plough, Sword and Book (1988) investigated the philosophy of history, and Conditions of Liberty (1994) sought to explain the collapse of.
In 1993, he returned to Prague, now rid of communism, and to the new, where he became head of the Center for the Study of Nationalism, a program funded by, the American billionaire philanthropist, to study the rise of in the post-communist countries of eastern and central. On 5 November 1995, after returning from a conference in, he suffered a heart attack and died at his flat in Prague, one month short of his 70th birthday. Gellner was noted for his questionable sense of humour. His daughter, Sarah Gellner, revealed that one of her father's favourite jokes was 'Rape, rape, rape, all summer long', and that 'If there was one thing Dad disliked more than feminists, it was homosexual men.' Words and Things. Gellner discovered his interest in linguistic philosophy while at Balliol. With the publication in 1959 of Words and Things, his first book, Gellner achieved fame and even notoriety among his fellow philosophers, as well as outside the discipline, for his fierce attack on (or 'linguistic philosophy', Gellner's preferred phrase).
Ordinary language philosophy, in one form or another, was the dominant approach at at the time (although the philosophers themselves denied that they were part of any unified school). He first encountered the strong ideological hold of linguistic philosophy while at Balliol: At that time the orthodoxy best described as linguistic philosophy, inspired by Wittgenstein, was crystallizing and seemed to me totally and utterly misguided.
Wittgenstein's basic idea was that there is no general solution to issues other than the custom of the community. Communities are ultimate. He didn't put it this way, but that was what it amounted to. And this doesn't make sense in a world in which communities are not stable and are not clearly isolated from each other. Nevertheless, Wittgenstein managed to sell this idea, and it was enthusiastically adopted as an unquestionable revelation. It is very hard nowadays for people to understand what the atmosphere was like then.
This was the Revelation. It wasn't doubted. But it was quite obvious to me it was wrong.
It was obvious to me the moment I came across it, although initially, if your entire environment, and all the bright people in it, hold something to be true, you assume you must be wrong, not understanding it properly, and they must be right. And so I explored it further and finally came to the conclusion that I did understand it right, and it was rubbish, which indeed it is.
Words and Things is fiercely critical of the work of, and many others. Ryle refused to have the book reviewed in the philosophical journal (which he edited), and (who had written an approving foreword) protested in a letter to. A response from Ryle and a lengthy correspondence ensued. Social anthropology In the 1950s, Gellner discovered his great love of.
'Prague is a stunningly beautiful town, and during the first period of my exile, which was during the war, I constantly used to dream about it, in the literal sense: it was a strong longing.' At Balliol, he studied (PPE) and specialised in philosophy. He interrupted his studies after one year to serve with the, which took part in the, and then returned to Prague to attend university there for half a term. During this period, Prague lost its strong hold over him: foreseeing the communist takeover, he decided to return to England. One of his recollections of the city in 1945 was a communist poster saying: 'Everyone with a clean shield into the ', ostensibly meaning that those whose records were good during the occupation were welcome. In reality, Gellner said, it meant exactly the opposite: If your shield is absolutely filthy we'll scrub it for you; you are safe with us; we like you the better because the filthier your record the more we have a hold on you. So all the bastards, all the distinctive, rapidly went into the Party, and it rapidly acquired this kind of character.
So what was coming was totally clear to me, and it cured me of the emotional hold which Prague had previously had over me. I could foresee that a was due: it came in '48.
The precise date I couldn't foresee, but that it was due to come was absolutely obvious for various reasons. I wanted no part of it and got out as quickly as I could and forgot about it. He returned to Balliol College in 1945 to finish his degree, winning the prize and taking in 1947.
The same year, he began his academic career at the as an assistant to Professor in the Department of Moral Philosophy. He moved to the London School of Economics in 1949, joining the sociology department under. Ginsberg admired philosophy and believed that philosophy and sociology were very close to each other. He employed me because I was a philosopher. Even though he was technically a professor of sociology, he wouldn't employ his own students, so I benefited from this, and he assumed that anybody in philosophy would be an evolutionary Hobhousean like himself. It took him some time to discover that I wasn't. Had preceded Ginsberg as Martin White Professor of Sociology at the LSE.
Hobhouse's Mind in Evolution (1901) had proposed that society should be regarded as an organism, a product of evolution, with the individual as its basic unit, the subtext being that society would improve over time as it evolved, a view that Gellner firmly opposed. Was totally unoriginal and lacked any sharpness. He simply reproduced the kind of evolutionary vision which had already been formulated by Hobhouse and which incidentally was a kind of extrapolation of his own personal life: starting in Poland and ending up as a fairly influential professor at LSE. He evolved, he had an idea of a where the lowest form of life was the drunk, Polish, anti-Semitic peasant and the next stage was the Polish gentry, a bit better, or the Staedtl, better still. And then he came to England, first to under Dawes Hicks, who was quite rational (not all that rational—he still had some anti-Semitic prejudices, it seems) and finally ended up at LSE with Hobhouse, who was so rational that rationality came out of his ears.
And so Ginsberg extrapolated this, and on his view the whole of humanity moved to ever greater rationality, from drunk Polish peasant to T.L. Hobhouse and a Hampstead garden. Gellner's critique of linguistic philosophy in Words and Things (1959) focused on and the later work of, criticizing them for failing to question their own methods. The book brought Gellner critical acclaim.
He obtained his Ph.D. In 1961 with a thesis on Organization and the Role of a and became Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method just one year later. Thought and Change was published in 1965, and in State and Society in Soviet Thought (1988), he examined whether Marxist regimes could be liberalized. He was elected to the in 1974. He moved to Cambridge in 1984 to head the Department of Anthropology, holding the and becoming a fellow of, which provided him with a relaxed atmosphere where he enjoyed drinking beer and playing with the students.
Described by the as 'brilliant, forceful, irreverent, mischievous, sometimes perverse, with a biting wit and love of irony', he was famously popular with his students, was willing to spend many extra hours a day tutoring them, and was regarded as a superb public speaker and gifted teacher. His Plough, Sword and Book (1988) investigated the philosophy of history, and Conditions of Liberty (1994) sought to explain the collapse of. In 1993, he returned to Prague, now rid of communism, and to the new, where he became head of the Center for the Study of Nationalism, a program funded by, the American billionaire philanthropist, to study the rise of in the post-communist countries of eastern and central. On 5 November 1995, after returning from a conference in, he suffered a heart attack and died at his flat in Prague, one month short of his 70th birthday. Gellner was noted for his questionable sense of humour. His daughter, Sarah Gellner, revealed that one of her father's favourite jokes was 'Rape, rape, rape, all summer long', and that 'If there was one thing Dad disliked more than feminists, it was homosexual men.' Words and Things.
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Gellner discovered his interest in linguistic philosophy while at Balliol. With the publication in 1959 of Words and Things, his first book, Gellner achieved fame and even notoriety among his fellow philosophers, as well as outside the discipline, for his fierce attack on (or 'linguistic philosophy', Gellner's preferred phrase). Ordinary language philosophy, in one form or another, was the dominant approach at at the time (although the philosophers themselves denied that they were part of any unified school). He first encountered the strong ideological hold of linguistic philosophy while at Balliol: At that time the orthodoxy best described as linguistic philosophy, inspired by Wittgenstein, was crystallizing and seemed to me totally and utterly misguided. Wittgenstein's basic idea was that there is no general solution to issues other than the custom of the community. Communities are ultimate.
He didn't put it this way, but that was what it amounted to. And this doesn't make sense in a world in which communities are not stable and are not clearly isolated from each other. Nevertheless, Wittgenstein managed to sell this idea, and it was enthusiastically adopted as an unquestionable revelation. It is very hard nowadays for people to understand what the atmosphere was like then. This was the Revelation. It wasn't doubted. But it was quite obvious to me it was wrong.
It was obvious to me the moment I came across it, although initially, if your entire environment, and all the bright people in it, hold something to be true, you assume you must be wrong, not understanding it properly, and they must be right. And so I explored it further and finally came to the conclusion that I did understand it right, and it was rubbish, which indeed it is. Words and Things is fiercely critical of the work of, and many others.
Ryle refused to have the book reviewed in the philosophical journal (which he edited), and (who had written an approving foreword) protested in a letter to. A response from Ryle and a lengthy correspondence ensued. Social anthropology In the 1950s, Gellner discovered his great love of.