Spectacles and Predicaments Essays in Social Theory

Name: Spectacles and Predicaments Essays in Social Theory
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ISBN: 9780521424349

ISBN-10: 0521424348

ISBN-13: 9780521424349

Edition: 1991

Authors: Ernest Gellner, I. C. Jarvie, J. Agassi

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Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/19/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 396
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Editorial preface




Understanding Humanity



The absolute in braces



Ethnomethodology: the re-enchantment industry or the Californian way of subjectivity



A Wittgensteinian philosophy of (or against) the Social sciences



Period piece



Chomsky



Notes towards a theory of ideology



The Cognitive Predicament



Options of belief



The pure enquirer



An ethic of cognition



Beyond truth and falsehood, or no method in my madness



The last pragmatist, or the behaviourist Platonist



Pragmatism and the important of being earnest



The Political Predicament



Nationalism, or the new confessions of a justified Edinburgh sinner



A social contract in search of an idiom: the demise of the Danegeld state



The withering away of the dentistry state



From the Revolution to liberalisation



Plaidoyer pur une libï¿½(c)ralisation manquï¿½(c)e



Gone and gone forever



The Kathmandu option


Sources


Bibliography of Gellner, 1972-78


Indexes.