Table of Contents

Preface; 1. A blobologist in Vodkobuzia; 2. Nationalism and the two forms of cohesion in complex societies; 3. The roots of cohesion; 4. Zeno of Cracow; 5. From Königsberg to Manhattan; 6. The social roots of egalitarianism; 7. Recollection in anxiety: thought and change revisited; 8. The captive Hamlet of Europe; 9. Waiting for Imam; 10. The rubber cage: disenchantment with disenchantment; 11. Tractatus sociologico-philosophicus; Sources; Bibliography of Ernest Gellner; Index of names.

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Essays exploring the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world.