Gellner, Ernest

Gellner, Ernest 1983. Nations and Nationalism. Oxford Blackwell. 

Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism (Oxford Basil Blackwell Publisher Limited, 1983). Gellner, Ernest. Conditions of Liberty Civil Society and Its Rivals (London, 1994). 

A nationalist account claims that nations ought to have states of their own. According to Ernest Gellner, a state is necessary to maintain a nation s official language, which supports a culture of a homogenized, impersonal, industrialized... 

HaU, John ed. The State of the Nation Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1998). 

In Ernest Gellner s brilliant apothegm, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society (III, Gellner, 1964, 179). Thomas S. Kuhn has made the point that one need not. . . inflate the importance of history of science to suppose that since 1870 science has assumed a role which no student of modern socio-economic development may responsibly ignore (III, Kuhn, 1971, 287). The estimates of U.S. contributions to world GNP and science are taken from III, Price, 1970, 106, 109. 

Gellner, 1964. Ernest Gellner. Thought and Change. Chicago University of Chicago Press. 

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