Ernest Gellner
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- Born
- 9 Dec 1925
- Died
- 5 Nov 1995
- Works
- 44
Top works
- לאומים ולאומיות
- Transition to modernity
- Populism
- Arabs and Berbers: from tribe to nation in North Africa
- Language and solitude
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Factor structure of the barratt impulsiveness scale
· 1995 · cited 5,591x
- Revised American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
· 2009 · cited 5,461x
- The CCPN data model for NMR spectroscopy: Development of a software pipeline
· 2005 · cited 3,159x
- Accurate whole human genome sequencing using reversible terminator chemistry
· 2008 · cited 3,005x
- Configuration interaction calculations on the nitrogen molecule
· 1974 · cited 2,831x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1925-12-09 ) 9 December 1925, Paris , France
- Died
- 5 November 1995 (1995-11-05) (aged 69), Prague , Czech Republic
- Alma mater
- Balliol College, Oxford
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Critical rationalism
- Institutions
- University of Edinburgh , London School of Economics , King's College, Cambridge , Central European University
- Main interests
- Political philosophy , philosophy of science , anthropology , nationalism
- Notable ideas
- Gellner's theory of nationalism , Criticism of ordinary language philosophy
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Key dates
- Born
- 9 December 1925
- Died
- 5 November 1995
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ernst
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Montrouge
- Place of death
- Prague
- Occupation
- author
- Employer
- Central European University
- Languages spoken
- English language
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Ernest André Gellner (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist. Central themes in his social thought included modernisation theory and nationalism, the latter of which he developed into a leading theory (Gellner's theory of nationalism). His multicultural perspective allowed him to engage with the Western world, the Muslim world, and Russian civilization.
His first book, Words and Things (1959), sparked a leading article in The Times, which then published a month-long correspondence on his analytical critique of linguistic philosophy. Gellner served for 22 years as Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics, eight years as the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and later headed the new Centre for the Study of Nationalism in Prague.
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1925 births1995 deaths20th-century British philosophers20th-century Czech JewsAcademics of the London School of EconomicsAcademics of the University of EdinburghAcademic staff of Central European UniversityAlumni of Balliol College, OxfordAnthropologists of religionBritish sociologistsCzech academicsCzechoslovak refugees