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Gellner's Structural-Functional-Culturalism
Enlightenment traditions celebrating the individual & knowledge that is universally valid are only one stream in the social philosophy of Ernest Gellner. As a philosopher, he vehemently rejected Wittgensteinian relativism. As a social anthropologist, he prioritized the study of 'structure' & 'function,' rather than cultural 'costume.' Yet his theory of nationalism relies on a concept of culture that I suggest derives ultimately from the Herderian countercurrent to enlightenment universalism. This notion of culture has a surprising affinity with the world view of Clifford Geertz. The paper argues that such holistic notions of 'a culture' are unconvincing anthropologically, increasingly unrealistic sociologically, & antiliberal politically.
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Seite(n): 173-181
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Englisch
- Notes
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
- Bibliographic citation
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Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 9(2)
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Philosophie
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Philosophie, Theologie
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hann, Chris
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Veröffentlichung
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2001
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-53524
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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- Hann, Chris
Time of origin
- 2001
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