Editorial preface I. C. Jarvie and J. Agassi; Part I. Understanding Humanity: 1. The absolute in braces; 2. Ethnomethodology: the re-enchantment industry or the Californian way of subjectivity; 3. A Wittgensteinian philosophy of (or against) the Social sciences; 4. Period piece; 5. Chomsky; 6. Notes towards a theory of ideology; Part II. The Cognitive Predicament: 7. Options of belief; 8. The pure enquirer; 9. An ethic of cognition; 10. Beyond truth and falsehood, or no method in my madness; 11. The last pragmatist, or the behaviourist Platonist; 12. Pragmatism and the important of being earnest; Part III. The Political Predicament: 13. Nationalism, or the new confessions of a justified Edinburgh sinner; 14. A social contract in search of an idiom: the demise of the Danegeld state; 15. The withering away of the dentistry state; 16. From the Revolution to liberalisation; 17. Plaidoyer pur une libéralisation manquée; 18. Gone and gone forever; 19. The Kathmandu option; Sources; Bibliography of Gellner, 1972–78; Indexes.

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