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Ernest Gellner

Born

in Paris, France

December 09, 1925

Died

November 05, 1995

Genre

Philosophy, History

Influences

Max Weber, Bertrand Russell, Bronisław Malinowski ...more

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Ernest Gellner was a prominent British-Czech philosopher, social anthropologist, and writer on nationalism.

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Average rating: 3.85 · 2,470 ratings · 146 reviews · 57 distinct works • Similar authors

	Nations and Nationalism 3.83 avg rating — 1,732 ratings — published 1983 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nationalism 3.81 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Postmodernism, Reason and Religion 3.77 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1992 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History 4.05 avg rating — 97 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals 3.74 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Words and Things: An Examination of, and an Attack on, Linguistic Philosophy by Ernest Gellner, Bertrand Russell (Foreword), Ian Jarvie (Introduction) 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1959 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Muslim Society 3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1981 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Culture, Identity, and Politics 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reason and Culture really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Encounters with Nationalism 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.”
― Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism

tags: nationalism

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“Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist.”
― Ernest Gellner

tags: nationalism, sociology

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“It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them”
― Ernest Gellner

tags: analysis, change, ideas, knowledge, thought

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