Ernest André Gellner FRAI (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by The Daily Telegraph...

Gellner's theory of nationalism was developed by Ernest Gellner over a number of publications from around the early 1960s to his 1995 death. Gellner discussed...

pressures. Unlike Benedict Anderson, Gellner thought nations were not "imagined communities". In his book, Ernest Gellner explained how he thought nations...

nationalism. Prominent modernization scholars, such as Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner and Eric Hobsbawn, say nationalism arose with modernization during the...

suppress deviant behaviour. Human beings, writes social anthropologist Ernest Gellner, are not genetically programmed to be members of this or that social...

Gellner is a Jewish surname, that may refer to: Ernest Gellner (1925–1995), British philosopher František Gellner (1881–1914), Czech writer Julius Gellner...

location that it occupied in pre-modern times. Unlike Wilson and Weber, Ernest Gellner (1974) acknowledges that there are drawbacks to living in a world whose...

by the philosopher Ernest Gellner, in which the author expands on his theory of nationalism. O'Leary describes the book as "Gellner's most elaborate statement...

(Oxford 1996), "Introduction", 8–9 Gellner, Ernest (1983) Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell. Ernest Gellner (1997) Nationalism. London: Weidenfeld...

rhetorical analysis, where criticism is the second-best thing I do." Ernest Gellner, in his book review titled "The Mightier Pen? Edward Said and the Double...

the sense of wholeness it once provided, to a disenchanted modernity. Ernest Gellner argued that, although disenchantment was the inevitable product of modernity...

be applied to other bodies of knowledge or learning, for example by Ernest Gellner to Marxism. Vincent Barry explains the difference between philosophy...

hegemony upon society. For the Orientalist Ernest Renan and for the rationalist philosopher Ernest Gellner, high culture was conceptually integral to...

social anthropology at Cambridge University, working with Jack Goody and Ernest Gellner. In 1986 she received her PhD for work on modern-day witches in England...

philosopher and social scientist Ernest Gellner. Julius Gellner was the ninth child of Anna (née Löbl) and Max Gellner. The family later moved from Saaz...

greatest political theorists. The British philosopher-anthropologist Ernest Gellner considered Ibn Khaldun's definition of government, "an institution which...

Fikentscher Meyer Fortes Morton Fried Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Ernest Gellner David Graeber Lesley Gill Ulf Hannerz Thomas Blom Hansen Ted C. Lewellen...

right, and it was rubbish, which indeed it is." — Ernest Gellner, Interview with John Davis, 1991 Gellner criticized ordinary language philosophy in his...

Thought and Change is a 1964 book by the philosopher Ernest Gellner, in which the author outlines his views on "modernity" and looks at the processes of...

period. Jayasthiti Malla (1382–1395) categorised Newars into 64 castes (Gellner 2001). A similar exercise was made during the reign of Mahindra Malla (1506–1575)...

matchlock musket, cannon, and the arquebus over traditional weapons. Ernest Gellner in his book 'Nations and Nationalism' argues that the centralizing potential...

Schumpeter and Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, philosophers Bernard Bolzano, Ernest Gellner, Vilém Flusser and Herbert Feigl, Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky...

"general critique of gradualism" in the twentieth century. Anthropologist Ernest Gellner proposed a neo-episodic model of change in 1964 that highlights the...

for the Study of Nationalism, CEU (Prague)- where he worked with late Ernest Gellner -, and at the University of Galway. He also held visiting professorships...

differs from contextualism, invariantism, and Schaffer's contrastivism. Ernest Gellner in Words and Things "terms derive their meaning from the fact that there...

2006), chapter 10, part VIII. K. R. Popper, 1945:199–200 Wilson, p. 403 Ernest Gellner, Nationalism (1997), pp. 25–29 M. Hardt/K. Weeks, The Jameson Reader...

University Press. p. XX. Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th ed., vol. 9, p. 148. Ernest Gellner, Plough, Sword and Book (1988), p. 239 Hannoum, Abdelmajid (2003). "Translation...

into the "historicist" or "modernist" school of nationalism along with Ernest Gellner and Eric Hobsbawm in that he posits that nations and nationalism are...

stereotypical development of nationalism in 19th-century Eastern Europe, by Ernest Gellner in Nations and Nationalism, in a pastiche of the historical narratives...

Fikentscher Meyer Fortes Morton Fried Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Ernest Gellner David Graeber Lesley Gill Ulf Hannerz Thomas Blom Hansen Ted C. Lewellen...