Ernest Gellner
An Intellectual Biography
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Verso Books
UK
2012
Oversized Paperback
400
Heavy
299512
978-1-84467-758-0
1-84467-758-3
Jewish philosophers; Czech Republic; Biography.
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Ernest Gellner was a multilingual polymath, able to set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam. In this definitive biography, particular attention is paid to his Prague roots, and to debates with Michael Oakeshott, Isaiah Berlin, Charles Taylor, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, and many others.
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