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didn't put it this way, but that was what it amounted to. And this doesn't make sense in a world in which communities are not stable and are not clearly isolated from each other. Nevertheless, Wittgenstein managed to sell this idea, and it was enthusiastically adopted as an unquestionable revelation. It is very hard nowadays for people to understand what the atmosphere was like then. This was
1134:, who was quite rational (not all that rational—he still had some anti-Semitic prejudices, it seems) and finally ended up at LSE with Hobhouse, who was so rational that rationality came out of his ears. And so Ginsberg extrapolated this, and on his view the whole of humanity moved to ever greater rationality, from drunk Polish peasant to T.L. Hobhouse and a Hampstead garden.
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t that time the orthodoxy best described as linguistic philosophy, inspired by
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is primarily a political principle that holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent". Gellner argues that nationalism appeared and became a sociological necessity only in the modern world. In previous times ("the agro-literate" stage of history), rulers had little incentive to
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Revelation. It wasn't doubted. But it was quite obvious to me it was wrong. It was obvious to me the moment I came across it, although initially, if your entire environment, and all the bright people in it, hold something to be true, you assume you must be wrong, not understanding it properly, and
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He employed me because I was a philosopher. Even though he was technically a professor of sociology, he wouldn't employ his own students, so I benefited from this, and he assumed that anybody in philosophy would be an evolutionary
Hobhousean like himself. It took him some time to discover that I
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as "brilliant, forceful, irreverent, mischievous, sometimes perverse, with a biting wit and love of irony", he was famously popular with his students, was willing to spend many extra hours a day tutoring them, and was regarded as a superb public speaker and gifted teacher.
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is underlined by the fact that there is perpetual growth: employment types vary and new skills must be learned. Thus, generic employment training precedes specialised job training. On a territorial level, there is competition for the overlapping
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vision which had already been formulated by
Hobhouse and which incidentally was a kind of extrapolation of his own personal life: starting in Poland and ending up as a fairly influential professor at LSE. He evolved, he had an idea of a
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on the ruled. But in modern society, work becomes technical; one must operate a machine, and to do so, one must learn. There is a need for impersonal, context-free communication and a high degree of cultural standardisation.
1057:, rapidly went into the Party, and it rapidly acquired this kind of character. So what was coming was totally clear to me, and it cured me of the emotional hold which Prague had previously had over me. I could foresee that a
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was due: it came in '48. The precise date I couldn't foresee, but that it was due to come was absolutely obvious for various reasons.... I wanted no part of it and got out as quickly as I could and forgot about
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If your shield is absolutely filthy we'll scrub it for you; you are safe with us; we like you the better because the filthier your record the more we have a hold on you. So all the bastards, all the distinctive
1109:(1901) had proposed that society should be regarded as an organism, a product of evolution, with the individual as its basic unit, the subtext being that society would improve over time as it evolved, a
1290:, his first book, Gellner achieved fame and even notoriety among his fellow philosophers, as well as outside the discipline, for his fierce attack on "linguistic philosophy", as he preferred to call
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where the lowest form of life was the drunk, Polish, anti-Semitic peasant and the next stage was the Polish gentry, a bit better, or the
Staedtl, better still. And then he came to England, first to
1021:"Prague is a stunningly beautiful town, and during the first period of my exile, which was during the war, I constantly used to dream about it, in the literal sense: it was a strong longing."
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they must be right. And so I explored it further and finally came to the conclusion that I did understand it right, and it was rubbish, which indeed it is.
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1014:, as a result of what he called "Portuguese colonial policy", which involved keeping "the natives peaceful by getting able ones from below into Balliol."
1154:, criticising them for failing to question their own methods. The book brought Gellner critical acclaim. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1961 with a thesis on
1048:", ostensibly meaning that those whose records were good during the occupation were welcome. In reality, Gellner said, it meant exactly the opposite:
1044:, he decided to return to England. One of his recollections of the city in 1945 was a communist poster saying: "Everyone with a clean shield into the
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Words and Things: A Critical
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Ernest Gellner and Historical Sociology (guest editor Sinisa Malesevic).
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He returned to Balliol College in 1945 to finish his degree, winning the
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ERIKSEN, THOMAS HYLLAND (January 2007). "Nationalism and the Internet".
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Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma
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and a month-long correspondence on its letters page over his attack on
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Detailed review of Gellner's works for students. In Russian language.
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The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism
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A Comparative Study of Historicism in Karl Marx and Ernest Gellner
1184:(1988), he examined whether Marxist regimes could be liberalised.
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in 1974. He moved to Cambridge in 1984 to head the Department of
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Liberalism in Modern Times: Essays in Honour of José G. Merquior
2029:, held on 21–22 May 2005 (10th anniversary of Gellner's death).
2023:"The Social and Political Relevance of Gellner's Thought Today"
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Obituary A Philosopher on Nationalism Ernest Gellner Died at 69
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Stirling, Paul (9 November 1995). "Ernest Gellner Obituary".
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Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist (1925–1995)
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in 1947. The same year, he began his academic career at the
1253:. On 5 November 1995, after returning from a conference in
1010:(Hertfordshire). At the age of 17, he won a scholarship to
1006:, where Gellner attended St Albans Boys Modern School, now
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Jews who immigrated to the United Kingdom to escape Nazism
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Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove
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persuaded his family to leave Czechoslovakia and move to
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in the post-communist countries of eastern and central
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in the Department of Moral Philosophy. He moved to the
963:(which, since 1918, was part of the newly established
1371:, writes that following the hard-nosed empiricism of
1867:. The controversy has been described by the writer
1363:In the 1950s, Gellner discovered his great love of
948:to Anna, née Fantl, and Rudolf, a lawyer, an urban
2457:People educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire
1865:The Strange Death of Ordinary Language Philosophy
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1955:(Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012)
1302:hold of linguistic philosophy while at Balliol:
1089:in 1949, joining the sociology department under
1647:Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought.
2592:William Wyse Professors of Social Anthropology
1999:Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought
2447:Members of the American Philosophical Society
2332:Academic staff of Central European University
2186:William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology
2001:(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
1976:(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
1645:Malešević, Siniša, and Mark Haugaard (eds.),
878:William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology
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1369:Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
2262:Academics of the London School of Economics
2092:"The Intellectual Legacy of Ernest Gellner"
1997:Malesevic, Sinisa and Mark Haugaard (eds).
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1649:New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
1983:(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002)
990:In 1939, when Gellner was 13, the rise of
820:(9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a
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728:Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems
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1960:Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography
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1626:Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography
1473:Populism: Its Meaning and Characteristics
1229:(1994) sought to explain the collapse of
2597:Writers about activism and social change
2267:Academics of the University of Edinburgh
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904:. Among other issues in social thought,
1992:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
1967:The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner
1819:American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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1552:The Concept of Kinship and Other Essays
1210:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
748:Political and Legal Anthropology Review
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2110:The Words and Things of Ernest Gellner
2027:National University of Ireland, Galway
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404:Societies without hierarchical leaders
2078:, at Dspace at Cambridge repository (
1619:Resources on Gellner and his research
1262:American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2377:Fellows of King's College, Cambridge
2227:20th-century British anthropologists
1965:Hall, John A. and Ian Jarvie (eds).
1319:is fiercely critical of the work of
1207:with the students. Described by the
971:was his uncle. He was brought up in
912:were two of his central themes, his
1988:"Gellner, Ernest André (1925–1995)"
1642:. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
1564:State and Society in Soviet Thought
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1182:State and Society in Soviet Thought
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2612:Writers about religion and science
2242:20th-century educational theorists
1576:Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
1540:Relativism and the Social Sciences
1461:, 10 November to 23 November 1959.
1113:view that Gellner firmly opposed.
1027:Philosophy, Politics and Economics
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2587:Theorists on Western civilization
2472:British philosophers of education
2272:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
2237:20th-century British philosophers
2232:20th-century British male writers
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1654:Gellner: un profilo intellettuale
1496:Contemporary Thought and Politics
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1294:, then the dominant approach at
1260:Gellner was a member of both the
1031:1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade
722:Political economy in anthropology
2497:British philosophers of religion
2312:British male non-fiction writers
2159:Works by or about Ernest Gellner
1706:10.1111/j.1469-8129.2007.00273.x
1286:With the publication in 1959 of
2342:Critics of alternative medicine
2317:British social sciences writers
2257:20th-century English historians
2062:Catalogue of the Gellner papers
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1520:Soviet and Western Anthropology
1409:Gellner's theory of nationalism
1156:Organisation and the Role of a
179:Gellner's theory of nationalism
2502:Philosophers of social science
2442:Literacy and society theorists
2382:Fellows of the British Academy
2252:20th-century British essayists
2247:20th-century British educators
2088:Social Evolution & History
2004:O'Leary, Brendan. Obituary in
1969:(Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V., 1996)
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1558:Culture, Identity and Politics
1502:The Devil in Modern Philosophy
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1266:American Philosophical Society
1180:was published in 1965, and in
584:Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
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2297:British educational theorists
2097:Special Issue of the journal
2094:(guest editor Peter Skalnik).
2085:Special Issue of the journal
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1081:as an assistant to Professor
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755:Journal of Legal Anthropology
423:The Art of Not Being Governed
2452:Ordinary language philosophy
2013:Stirling, Paul. Obituary in
1981:Ernest Gellner and Modernity
1292:ordinary language philosophy
900:and the dictatorship of the
184:ordinary language philosophy
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2607:Writers about globalization
2487:Philosophers of linguistics
2282:Anthropologists of religion
1802:Nationalism Studies Program
1546:The Psychoanalytic Movement
1514:Spectacles and Predicaments
1413:In 1983, Gellner published
1241:, the American billionaire
1235:Central European University
1055:authoritarian personalities
847:as a "one-man crusader for
143:Central European University
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2412:Jewish non-fiction writers
2070:London School of Economics
2050:London School of Economics
1942:Davies, John. Obituary in
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1087:London School of Economics
1035:Siege of Dunkirk (1944–45)
874:London School of Economics
761:Journal of Law and Society
481:Colonialism and resistance
135:London School of Economics
2567:Sociologists of education
2467:Philosophers of economics
2322:British social scientists
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1885:"Obituary: Paul Pascon".
1399:, whose work he admired.
1201:King's College, Cambridge
1199:and becoming a fellow of
1103:Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
1033:, which took part in the
435:Non-western state systems
411:African Political Systems
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139:King's College, Cambridge
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2572:Sociologists of religion
2482:Philosophers of language
2427:Jewish social scientists
2372:Economic anthropologists
2347:Cultural anthropologists
2287:British anti-capitalists
1730:13 February 2006 at the
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1221:(1988) investigated the
1164:and became Professor of
2602:Writers about communism
2577:Sociologists of science
2552:Scholars of nationalism
2477:Philosophers of history
2462:Philosophers of culture
2292:British anti-communists
2076:Gellner video materials
1694:Nations and Nationalism
1533:Nations and Nationalism
1416:Nations and Nationalism
1392:Nations and Nationalism
1345:(which he edited), and
1245:, to study the rise of
1079:University of Edinburgh
1025:At Balliol, he studied
1012:Balliol College, Oxford
983:'s tricultural Prague:
882:University of Cambridge
460:and the State in Africa
131:University of Edinburgh
99:20th-century philosophy
85:Balliol College, Oxford
2582:Theoretical historians
2557:Social anthropologists
2532:Political sociologists
2527:Political philosophers
2392:Jewish anthropologists
1873:Fly and the Fly Bottle
1815:"Ernest Andre Gellner"
1656:, Carocci, Roma 2011 (
1570:Plough, Sword and Book
1508:Legitimation of Belief
1486:. New York: Macmillan.
1314:
1283:
1219:Plough, Sword and Book
1187:He was elected to the
1150:and the later work of
1138:Gellner's critique of
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702:Circumscription theory
489:Europe and the People
458:Technology, Tradition,
2492:Philosophers of logic
2367:Czechoslovak refugees
2352:Czech anti-communists
2337:Critical rationalists
2277:Analytic philosophers
2118:Linguistic Philosophy
2112:by Czeglédy, André P.
2046:Gellner resource page
1962:(London: Verso, 2010)
1933:written by Eric Pace
1782:"Interview section 2"
1652:Ruini, Andrea Ernest
1588:Conditions of Liberty
1304:
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1227:Conditions of Liberty
1223:philosophy of history
1176:just one year later.
1140:linguistic philosophy
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870:linguistic philosophy
833:social anthropologist
776:cultural anthropology
564:E. E. Evans-Pritchard
417:Papuan Big man system
159:philosophy of science
2542:Revolution theorists
2512:Philosophy academics
2327:British sociologists
2189:Cambridge University
1972:Hall, John A. (ed.)
1844:search.amphilsoc.org
1840:"APS Member History"
1638:Hall, John A. (ed.)
1373:Bronisław Malinowski
1124:great chain of being
944:Gellner was born in
906:modernisation theory
849:critical rationalism
813:Ernest André Gellner
569:Wolfgang Fikentscher
544:Henri J. M. Claessen
299:Pantribal sodalities
155:Political philosophy
121:Critical rationalism
2617:Writers from Prague
2562:Social philosophers
2507:Philosophers of war
2432:Jewish sociologists
2417:Jewish philosophers
2153:The Partisan Review
2016:The Daily Telegraph
1979:Lessnoff, Michael.
1756:"Gellner Interview"
1679:The Daily Telegraph
1490:Saints of the Atlas
1381:Saints of the Atlas
1365:social anthropology
1359:Social anthropology
1321:Ludwig Wittgenstein
1152:Ludwig Wittgenstein
1075:first class honours
858:(1959), prompted a
838:The Daily Telegraph
712:Left–right paradigm
2547:Rhetoric theorists
2517:Philosophy writers
1936:The New York Times
1895:(6): 21–22. 1985.
1888:Anthropology Today
1582:Reason and Culture
1466:Thought and Change
1434:industrial society
1386:Thought and Change
1284:
1197:William Wyse chair
1178:Thought and Change
1146:(1959) focused on
1128:University College
1042:communist takeover
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876:for 22 years, the
707:Legal anthropology
609:Thomas Blom Hansen
539:Robert L. Carneiro
328:Segmentary lineage
265:Leveling mechanism
215:legal anthropology
109:Western philosophy
2522:Populism scholars
2407:Jewish historians
2307:British logicians
2302:British ethicists
2205:
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2199:Marilyn Strathern
2196:Succeeded by
2171:Academic offices
2066:Archives Division
2019:, 9 November 1995
2010:, 8 November 1995
1951:Dimonye, Simeon.
1948:, 7 November 1995
1917:, 1983, p. 1
1738:, 8 November 1995
1628:. Verso, (2010).
1174:Scientific Method
1107:Mind in Evolution
1073:prize and taking
810:
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534:Jeremy Boissevain
519:Georges Balandier
514:E. Adamson Hoebel
193:
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2402:Jewish ethicists
2397:Jewish educators
2362:Czech scientists
2176:Preceded by
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2163:Internet Archive
2144:Words and Things
2123:Words and Things
2056:Ethics and Logic
1939:10 November 1995
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