Nations and Nationalism - Gellner, Ernest (Late of University of Cambridge, UK)
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This updated edition of Ernest Gellner's classic exploration of the roots of nationalism includes an extended introduction from John Breuilly, tracing the way the field has changed over the past two decades. As pertinent today as it was when it was first published in 1983.

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This updated edition of Ernest Gellner's classic exploration of the roots of nationalism includes an extended introduction from John Breuilly, tracing the way the field has changed over the past two decades. As pertinent today as it was when it was first published in 1983.
Autorenporträt
Ernest Gellner was born in Paris in 1925 and brought up inPrague, fleeing with his family to England in 1939. He taught atthe LSE from 1949, where he was Professor of Philosophy withspecial reference to Sociology from 1962 until 1984, when he becameWilliam Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University ofCambridge. At the end of his life, in 1995, he was Director of theCentre for the Study of Nationalism, part of the Central EuropeanUniversity, in Prague. He wrote many books, among them Words andThings (1959), Thought and Change (1964), Saints ofthe Atlas (1969), Legitimation of Belief (1974), ThePsychoanalytic Movement (1985), Plough, Sword and Book: TheStructure of Human History (1988), Conditions of Liberty:Civil Society and its Rivals (1994), and the posthumousLanguage and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the HabsburgDilemma (1998).

John Breuilly is Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicityat the London School of Economics. He taught at ManchesterUniversity from 1972 until 1995 and at Birmingham University from1995 until 2004. He has held visiting Professorships at theuniversities of Hamburg (1987-8) and Bielefeld (1992-3) and aResearch Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (2001-2).Book publications include Austria, Prussia and Germany1806-1871 (2002), Nationalismus und modernerStaat. Deutschland und Europa (1999), The Formationof the First German Nation-State, 1800-1871 (1996), andNationalism and the State (2nd.ed., 1993)
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"Over ten years after his death, Gellner's impact remainsunparalleled. We are captivated by the explanatory power ofGellner's crystalline prose enriched by flowing sequences ofcausations. The reader is typically enchanted by Gellner's logicalrigour as if mesmerised by the contemplation of an art masterpiece.We should wonder whether we are dealing with a scholar or with apoet. The answer is probably both." Nations and Nationalism

"Breuilly's new introduction provides an excellentcritical overview of Gellner's writings on nationalism,judiciously evaluating his ideas while also providing insights intotheir place and continuing significance within the widerhistoriography of nationalism studies." Paul Lawrence, The OpenUniversity

"Nations and Nationalism has become such an intrinsicpart of the standard literature that it is regularly cited by boththose who share its views and those who distinguish their approachfrom Gellner's."
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions

"The second edition of this canonical text comes with acompelling Introduction by John Breuilly which revisits Gellner'stheory in the light of contemporary debates on nationalism."Umut Özkyrymly, Istanbul BilgiUniversity

reviews of the first edition:

"Brilliant, provocative ... a great book." NewStatesman

"An important book ... a new starting line from which allsubsequent discussions of nationalism will have to begin." NewSociety

"A better explanation than anyone has yet offered of whynationalism is such a prominent principle of political legitimacytoday ... a terse and forceful work ... the product of greatintellectual energy and an impressive range of knowledge." TimesLiterary Supplement

"Gellner's short book is an incisive, penetrating and persuasivediscussion of how the nation-states of the modern industrial worlddiffer from earlier states ... Gellner uses this analysis toexplain the force of nationalism in the modern world."International Security

"Gellner's range is wide, covering the ideas of some modernthinkers from Marx, Malinowski and Carr to heideggar, Hroch, Haveland Said." Race and Class…mehr