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Choi's notions of knowledge and education are, as Ernest Gellner might have said, wholly pre-industrial. They typify the thinking that predominated in all the great book-religions until the transformations of the past 300 years. In these religions, knowledge was presumed to have come from a divine source and to be contained in sacred scriptures. Only a select few, it was thought, could interpret these works correctly, faithful to the divine will. In the great book-religions, these great books specifically, and language more generally, partook of the sacred; the path to truth and to divinity passed through...
Unlike the established literature on nationalism, Greenfeld's Nationalism does not opt for the short compact theses of scholars such as Benedict Anderson (Imagined Communities) and Ernest Gellner (Nations and Nationalism) but rather delves into the particulars of five nations in a search for the driving forces behind nationalism. Greenfeld devotes a chapter each to England, France, Russia, Germany and America, and concludes that there is no one nationalism, but that there are "nationalisms...
British sociology is not without merit. To name even a few scholars makes the point: Ronald Dore (at Harvard recently), John Goldthrope and Anthony Giddens (consistently sought, I have been informed, by the sociologists here), Ernest Gellner (this year's Tanner lecturer at Harvard), Michael Mann and Duncan Gallie (recent winners of America's most prestigous sociology prize...
...HUGO GELLNER...
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