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Ernest Gellner
Hall
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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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844677580
SKU
V9781844677580
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About Hall
John A. Hall is the James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University in Montreal. His books include Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography, Powers and Liberties, Liberalism, Coercion and Consent, International Orders, and (with Charles Lindholm) Is America Breaking Apart? He taught at the Central European University in the early 1990s, when Gellner had returned to Prague, and ... Read more
Reviews for Ernest Gellner
The cumulative effect is monumental-and a monument does seem overdue.
Scott McLemee
National
Gellner has been brought back to life-alongside his combative ideas and his maverick approach to intellectual combat-in a sympathetic but by no means reverential biography by his former pupil John A. Hall.
Wall Street Journal
Few books have more successfully combined the ... Read more
Scott McLemee
National
Gellner has been brought back to life-alongside his combative ideas and his maverick approach to intellectual combat-in a sympathetic but by no means reverential biography by his former pupil John A. Hall.
Wall Street Journal
Few books have more successfully combined the ... Read more