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	Review Articles: Ernest Gellner
		Ernest Gellner, who died on 5 November 1995, was one of the great polymaths of the century.
		Gellner has a second line of argument which does not focus on the nature of religion, but on its power in relation to the State.
		The separation of religion and politics is one of the central constituents of modernity and it was achieved by accident and through a dynamic tension and balance of forces of an unusual kind and over a long period.
	www.history.ac.uk /reviews/reapp/gellner.html (2460 words)

	Ernest Gellner -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ernest Gellner (December 9 1925 - November 5 1995) was a philosopher and social anthropologist, one of the world's most eminent academics, whose work famously prompted a leader and month-long correspondence on the letters page of (additional info and facts about The Times) The Times of London.
		It was in the 60s that Gellner discovered his great love of (The branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society) social anthropology.
		For Gellner, " (The doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other) nationalism is primarily a political principle that holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/er/ernest_gellner.htm (2108 words)

	Thompson
		Gellner’s interpretation of the transition to modernity is rooted in the history of philosophy and the sociology of religion.
		According to Gellner, this response is not merely misguided nostalgia for some lost ethnic fraternity that serves as a haven in a heartless world; it is a veiled recognition of the importance, under modern conditions, of a single, standardized medium of communication.
		Gellner’s theory of nationalism is, as Perry Anderson has pointed out, a functionalist theory: it has more to say about the objective role of nationalism under modern conditions than it does about the subjective factor of identity.
	www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/5-2/thompsom.html (1649 words)

	NUI Galway, Social Sciences Research Centre (SSRC)
		Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) was unique as a thinker, a polymath whose work covered areas as diverse as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic world, nationalism, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, East European transformations and kinship structures.
		Central to Gellner’s staunch support for Western liberalism and critique of communism, Islam and postmodernism, is the belief that the emergence of ‘civil society’, at the end of the 18th century, represented a unique event that allowed freedom to flourish in a historically unprecedented manner.
		Ernest Gellner’s analysis of Islam was shaped by his theory of history and of modernity.
	www.nuigalway.ie /ssrc/events.html (2706 words)

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		Gellner's writing style is elegant and lucid (which, surprising as it may seem, is not always a recommendation in academic quarters, where portentous obscurity tends to be highly prized): it is also witty, highly polemical, and given to mockery of his opponents (including those who indulge in portentous obscurity, but not only these).
		Gellner was born in 1925, in Paris, to Czech Jewish parents (his father happened to be researching on the French political theorist Joseph de Maistre at the time).
		Gellner undoubtedly was strongly influenced by the British intellectual tradition, but he harnessed its resources to the concerns of a mind shaped, in the first instance, by the historical experiences of Continental and more especially Central Europe.
	www.the-rathouse.com /Lessnoff__Gellner_and_Modernity.doc (2754 words)

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		Gellner’s claim that a useful theory is a ‘neat crisp model’, not because it is true, but because it makes you notice that the evidence goes for it or against it, seems more convincing.
		Gellner thought that a national language must be possessed of a ‘high’ culture, yet, once a state exists, and its rulers have, not only an army and a navy, but an educational system, they will be the ones to decide if their language qualifies.
		Surprisingly, Gellner’s claim that a modern state requires a single language is hardly questioned, in spite of the existence of many multilingual states and the ability of people at many different social levels to function in a language which is not their mother tongue.
	marxnat.tripod.com /statnat.htm (916 words)

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		Gellner, of course, insists that the confrontation between High and Low Islam is a function of the periodic political confrontation of the centre-periphery.
		Gellner, who was greatly influenced by the Islamic revolution in Iran in formulating his theories, refering indirectly to that country, claims that in the "new puritancal religion" of Islam the leaders, because issues of conscience play an important role, are less likely to be corrupted even after attaining political power [23].
		Gellner says American puritans went for simplicity only because they were in a minority, and after the defeat of the English revolution had abandoned the thought of imposing their views on the whole of society.
	www.iran-bulletin.org /political_islam/islamod7.html (5609 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ernest Gellner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ernest Gellner (December 9, 1925 - November 5, 1995) was a philosopher and social anthropologist, one of the world's most eminent academics, whose work famously prompted a leader and month-long correspondence on the letters page of The Times of London.
		Gellner obtained his Ph.D. in 1961 with a thesis on "Organization and the Role of a Berber Zawiya", and become Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method just one year later.
		With the publication in 1959 of Words and Things, his first book, Gellner achieved fame and even notoriety among his fellow philosophers, as well as outside the discipline, for his fierce attack on linguistic philosophy as practised at Oxbridge at the time.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ernest-Gellner (3597 words)

	Foreign Affairs - On Civil Society: Why Eastern Europe's Revolutions Could Succeed - Michael Ignatieff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ernest Gellner's book is not the first to observe this phenomenon, but it is certainly the most penetrating and profound.
		Gellner is a Czech?born, British?trained philosopher, anthropologist, and social theorist, formerly a professor of social anthropology at Cambridge University and now director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism at the Charles University in Prague.
		Gellner's most interesting thought is that the societies built with the scaffolding of Marx's thought made the mistake not of attempting to drive religion out of life altogether, but of investing the economic with sacred significance.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19950301fareviewessay5029/michael-ignatieff/on-civil-society-why-eastern-europe-s-revolutions-could-succeed.html (3892 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Words and Things, by Ernest Gellner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		ERNEST GELLNER knew full well that sooner or later the role of Angry Young Philosophei would have to be cast.
		...Gellner reports, what is quite true, that many of the linguistic philosophers "feel in their bones" that common sense is right as against philosophical paradox...
		...Gellner, who takes conceptual innovation in science, philosophy, and politics tb be a main task of thought, is appalled by what he believes to be the conceptual conservatism of the linguistic philosopher...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V30I2P92-1.htm (1499 words)

	Huseyin ISIKSAL* TWO PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF ETHNICITY TO NATIONALISM: COMPARING GELLNER AND SMITH
		Gellner argued that in pre-agrarian and agrarian societies nationalism could not develop mainly because of the small size of the society where ethnic differences were neither visible nor thought of as the ideal political boundary and states.
		Gellner argued that 'ethnicity' enters the political sphere as 'nationalism' at times when cultural homogeneity or continuity is required by the economic base of social life and when, consequently, culture linked class differences become noxious, while ethnically unmarked, gradual class differences remain tolerable.
		Gellner's theory fails to explain these ethnic-based movements that developed independently from modernity and industrialisation along with the recent escalation of ethnic nationalism in Germany (that is one of the most advanced industrial country of the world) especially against Turkish and other ethnic groups.
	www.alternativesjournal.net /volume1/number1/huseyini.htm (5157 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		The late Ernest Gellner held that multinational states were politically unviable, and that cultural homogeneity was essential for a stable state.
		I was with Ernest Gellner in Budapest in 1995 on the night before he died, attending a conference he had organised at the Central European University on the theme of formerly dominant ethnic minorities.
		Gellner emphasised that nationalism is the primary principle of political legitimacy of modernity--along with affluence.
	www.fathom.com /feature/35579 (3064 words)

	Introduction to Gellner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gellner responded to this work by thinking, "I've taken it for granted that everybody is naturally a nationalist, whereas, in fact, what Kedourie has taught me is that nationalism is a modern phenomenon." He utterly rejected Kedourie's underlying supposition that nationalism was simply the product of bad ideas.
		Some believe that is what drives Gellner's conception that you either have to assimilate or face expulsion and genocide, and they also believe that accounts for his neglect of ethnic and national phenomena in places such as America, Africa and Asia, where his references are less than compelling and convincing.
		Gellner will help you understand why, for example, the Serbs are less economically advanced than the Croatians and the Slovenians and that that gives rise to some underlying tensions, rivalries, antagonisms and animosities between those groups.
	fathom.lse.ac.uk /Features/121950 (2358 words)

	Directory - Society: Philosophy: Philosophers: G: Gellner, Ernest
		Ernest Gellner 1925-1995 · cached · Several obituaries of this Czech-British polymath.
		Ernest Gellner · Cosma Shalizi's ruminations on this thinker, and a bibliography.
		Lecture by Ernest Gellner · cached · QuickTime movie of a speech delivered by Gellner in 1989 describing the collapse of the Soviet Union.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=1160236 (136 words)

	CIVIL SOCIETY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES: TWO STATIST VIEWS REVIEWED
		I fill Ernest Gellner with disgust: disgust at my views and disgust at his inability to say exactly what is wrong with them (or so he once remarked in his social philosophy seminar).
		Gellner loves Civil Society —; his capitals — rather than liberty; the subtitle of his book is more accurate than the title.
		Gellner was taken in by Soviet prestige projects: forced and fruitless industrialisation, the space race, nuclear weapons.
	www.la-articles.org.uk /reviews.htm (1002 words)

	Ernest Gellner -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
		In this book, completed just before his death, Ernest Gellner explores the phenomenon of nationalism, tracing its emergence and roots in the modern industrialized nation-state, its links with romanticism and its creation of national myths.
		It is widely understood that Gellner actively participated in a variety of discussions; from the nature of modernity, the causes of nationalism, the role of philosophy in modern life, the rise of Islam, to the nature of industrialism and rationalism.
		Gellner wrote extensively on all these topics throughout his academic life.
	www.erraticimpact.com /%7E20thcentury/html/ernest_gellner.htm (423 words)

	Ernest Gellner 1925-1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gellner's Czech-Jewish family came from the Sudeten or German- speaking region of Bohemia.
		In 1939 the family emigrated to England and during 1944-5 Ernest fought in the Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade in France.
		In 1987 Gellner wrote that the experience of living on the edge of so many nationalisms without properly belonging to any...impelled me to think about nationalism.
	www.cpa.ed.ac.uk /bulletinarchive/1995-1996/03/obit_02.html (677 words)

	Ernest Gellner and Modernity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ernest Gellner (1925—1995) was one of the major thinkers of the twentieth-century.
		Ernest Gellner and Modernity is a groundbreaking book which provides the first comprehensive discussion of this polymathic writer and thinker.
		He shows how Gellner’s analysis of the social, economic and cognitive forms intrinsic to modernity carried forward the work of Max Weber and Karl Popper and also enabled him to develop a profound and original philosophy of science which is at the same time a political philosophy.
	www.uwp.co.uk /book_desc/1684.html (329 words)

	The Habsburg dilemma
		As Gellner writes, “community is sung and praised by those who have lost it”.
		Ernest Gellner, Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma, Cambridge University Press, 1998, p 12
		Ernest Gellner, Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma, p 21.
	www.culturecult.com /culturecult/hapsburg.htm (1485 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Postmodernism, Reason and Religion: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ernest Gellner, one of the most respected social thinkers of our day, explores the ideological options open to modern society.
		Gellner is highly critical of postmodernism, arguing that it indulges in subjectivism as a form of expiation for the sins of colonialism.
		Gellner explores the strengths and weaknesses of the third option, the option he prefers, arguing that this works only on assumption of inner compromise, and a seperation of truth taken seriously from truth used as a kind of cultural decoration.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/041508024X (591 words)

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	GELLNER RESOURCE PAGE
		It is widely understood that Gellner actively participated in a variety of discussions; from the nature of modernity, the causes of nationalism, the role of philosophy in modern life, the rise of Islam, to the nature of industrialism and rationalism.
		Gellner wrote extensively on all these topics throughout his academic life.
		We hope to foster and disseminate commentary and discussion on Gellner's thought with this
	www.members.tripod.com /GellnerPage/Index.html (115 words)

	Alibris: Ernest Gellner
		Gellner's final book is a synoptic interpretation of the thought of Wittgenstein and Malinowski.
		In this incisive study, Ernest Gellner suggests that we face three ideological options at the present time: belief in objective truth and religious faith, belief that truth is culturally relative, or belief that while objective truth may exist, no one society can fully possess it.
		When Ernest Gellner was his early thirties, he took it upon himself to challenge the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, Linguistic Philosophy.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Ernest_Gellner (730 words)

	Subject: Ernest Gellner: MARXISM AND ISLAM: FAILURE AND SUCCESS
		It combines firm guidance in an idiom compatible with modern backgrounds, with a respect for the type of social division which is essential for a viable society.
		_____ Professor Ernest Gellner is William Wyse Professor of Anthorpology at the University of Cambridge.
		_____ world of penguin author description: Ernest Gellner was born in 1925 and joined the staff of the London School of Economics in 1949.
	ontology.buffalo.edu /smith/courses01/rrtw/Gellner2.htm (3537 words)

	Amazon.com: Plough, Sword, and Book : The Structure of Human History: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ernest Gellner's philosophy of human history as discussed in Plough, Sword, and Book offers readers a view of human history that is unique and comprehensive.
		Gellner's model of human history entails a society passing through three principal stages: hunting and gathering, agrarian society, and industrial society (pages 16-17).
		Gellner delivers on his promise of "structure of human history", also keeping his word in the introduction to write for both those new to anthropology and the specialists.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226287025?v=glance (1676 words)

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