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Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography

By John A. Hall

Book information

Publisher
Verso
ISBN
9781844677580, 1844677583
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2510190 bytes)
Pages
416\190
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2023-06-29 06:40:26

Description

Ernest Gellner was a multilingual polymath who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam for an entire generation of academics and students. This definitive biography follows his trajectory from his early years in Prague, Paris and England to international success as a philosopher and public intellectual. Known both for his highly integrated philosophy of modernity and for combining a respect for nationalism with an appreciation for science, Gellner was passionate in his defence of reason against every for of relativism.

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