8. Lecture on Ernest Gellner (1925-1995)
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Uploaded by ayabaya on Nov 22, 2007
Lecture to second year undergraduate students at Cambridge University in 2001 by Alan Macfarlane on some aspects of the work of the sociologist, anthropologists and philosopher Ernest Gellner. For the background, downloadble version, readings etc. please see www.alanmacfarlane.com
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Dr. MacFarlane, I have proposed to the Nobel Committee that they should invent a new category, Nobel Prize for Intellectual Tolerance. I am sorry ! but you deserve it. I think there is a great deal of tolerance engendered as a result of listening to your lectures and reading your works.
necessarily 5 months ago
reading Ernest Gellner restored my faith in anthropology. He may not be fashionable but I think he was probably right about most things, the explanation of Gemienschaft and gesellschaft was very helpful and sheds light on the modern world that helps explain alot. This is an excellent lecture and a joy to listen to. Thanks alot for posting it.
RikiTikiTavi91 10 months ago
Yah yah so I literally went on a gap yah in Burmah, yah.
cnavaro88 1 year ago
@EvolFighter can you hear anything? if not, then it's just you.
viloloco5 1 year ago
is the audio broken or is this problem just me?
EvolFighter 2 years ago
I don't think Israel's impact in today's world would persuade either Gellner or any of his peers to equate israel's 60+ years of institutional presence(either abusive or not) in the world to 18 centuries of Islamist expansion, influence an clout. Whatever abuses of Israel's "closed system" has committed are negligible at the scale in which Gellner places his analysis and work in Islam.
LaraAnguizola 2 years ago
Kol HaKavod. A wonderful lecture!
akiv44 3 years ago
Most stimulating and inspiring. Thanks for putting this on You Tube.
wilhelmsnyman 3 years ago
Just wondering why Gellner never addressed the existence of the only other world-view that still espouses a closed-system, namely the state of Israel. Perhaps this has something to do with his personal proclivities, but I think that it is a fair criticism of the state. Indeed it seems that Gellner's criticism of Islam for its failure to stand for countervailing authorities would be quite well suited to the way in which the state of Israel is constructed.
ojcb2 3 years ago 2