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Our current sense of anxiety or after Gellner *
Author(s) -
Hall John A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
nations and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1469-8129
pISSN - 1354-5078
DOI - 10.1111/nana.12431
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , liberalism , nationalism , anxiety , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , political science , psychology , law , chemistry , psychiatry , politics , biochemistry
The paper begins by describing three elements of Gellner's social philosophy that lay behind his essentially optimistic version of liberalism. The argument that follows suggests that all these elements – respect for the procedures of modern science, general participation in a growing economy and ‘ironic’ nationalism – are under attack. In consequence, we live again in an age of anxiety.