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Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
First Published in 1992. On questions of faith, Ernest Gellner believes, three ideological options are available to us today. One is the return to a genuine and firm faith in a religious tradition. The other is a form of relativism which abandons the notion of unique truth altogether and resigns itself to treating truth as relative to the society or culture in question. The third, which Gellner calls enlightenment rationalism, upholds the idea that there is a unique truth, but denies that any society can ever possess it definitively. Learned and stimulating, Professor Gellner's book is an important contribution to our understanding of postmodernism and the relations between Islam and the West. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the ideological condition of contemporary society.
Book Details
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: Aug 6th, 1992
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.72in - 5.10in - 0.47in - 0.32lb
- EAN: 9780415080248
- Categories: • Comparative Religion• Sociology - General
Praise for this book
"No one who has flirted with or been puzzled by post-modernism, or wondered about the meaning of resurgent Islam should fail to read this "tour de force which brings the two so surprisingly and successfully together."
-Bryan Wilson, Oxford University
"The book is a wonderful, scorching, brusque attack on post-modernist relativism and a convincing defense of Gellner's kind of secular rationalism...a wonderfully lucid book.."
-" James Woods, The Guardian
"Gellner's scholarship is first-rate and his argument pursued with ruthless logic. What is best about Gellner's slim volume, apart from his very learned style and biting wit, is his recognition of the appeal of religious fundamentalism not to just the masses but to intelligent and educated people as well."
-"Middle East Policy
-Bryan Wilson, Oxford University
"The book is a wonderful, scorching, brusque attack on post-modernist relativism and a convincing defense of Gellner's kind of secular rationalism...a wonderfully lucid book.."
-" James Woods, The Guardian
"Gellner's scholarship is first-rate and his argument pursued with ruthless logic. What is best about Gellner's slim volume, apart from his very learned style and biting wit, is his recognition of the appeal of religious fundamentalism not to just the masses but to intelligent and educated people as well."
-"Middle East Policy