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Ernest Gellner made major contributions in very diverse fields, notably philosophy and social anthropology. His attacks on the orthodoxies of his time made it difficult for him to be fully accepted into either of these academic communities, but that suited him well enough: he seemed to enjoy leading a one-man crusade for critical rationalism, defending enlightenment universalism against the rising... Read more
Volume I: Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
Volume II: Contemporary Thought and Politics
Volume III: The Devil in Modern Philosophy
Volume II: Contemporary Thought and Politics
Volume III: The Devil in Modern Philosophy
Biography
Ernest Gellner, Anthropologist, Balliol College and the London School of Economics.
