Download or read book Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought written by Siniša Malešević and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Gellner's scholarship covered areas as diverse as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic world, nationalism, psychoanalysis and East European kinship structures. Bringing together a group of social theorists, this book re-examines his central concerns in the light of the modern world.