Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography by Hall, John A.

Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781844677580)

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Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography by Hall, John A.

Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography

$29.95
Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography by Hall, John A.

Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: John A. Hall
ISBN-10: 1844677583
ISBN-13: 9781844677580
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2012
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.30d
By John A. Hall
By John A. Hall
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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 gained an appreciation at that time of his background in Central Europe.

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