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Ernest Gellner
Ernest André Gellner was a French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist. Central themes in his social thought included modernisation theory and nationalism, the latter of which he developed into a leading theory. His multicultural perspective allowed him to engage with the Western world and the Muslim world.
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Born 9 December 1925 · Died 5 November 1995 · Q170078
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1995· 2 entries
Died 1995-11-05.
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“Cap. 7, seção "Let a hundred flowers bloom, an Instant God", Pg. 143”
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1993· 1 entry
Returned to Prague, now rid of communism, and to the new Central European University, where he became head of the Center for the Study of Nationalism, a program funded by George Soros, the American billionaire philant
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1985· 1 entry
“De "Relativism and the social sciences", 1985.”
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1984· 1 entry
To head the Department of Anthropology, holding the William Wyse chair and becoming a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, which provided him with a relaxed atmosphere where he enjoyed drinking beer and playing chess wit
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1983· 1 entry
Gellner published Nations and Nationalism
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1965· 1 entry
And in State and Society in Soviet Thought (1988), he examined whether Marxist regimes could be liberalised
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1961· 1 entry
With a thesis on Organisation and the Role of a Berber Zawiya and became Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method just one year later
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1959· 1 entry
Of Words and Things, 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 or
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1949· 1 entry
Joining the sociology department under Morris Ginsberg
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1945· 2 entries
Was a communist poster saying: "Everyone with a clean shield into the Party", ostensibly meaning that those whose records were good during the occupation were welcome
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To finish his degree, winning the John Locke prize and taking first class honours in 1947
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1939· 1 entry
When Gellner was 13, the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany persuaded his family to leave Czechoslovakia and move to St Albans, just north of London, where Gellner attended St Albans Boys Modern School, now Verulam School (
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-12-09.
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