Ernest Gellner

Ernest André Gellner (December 9, 1925 – November 5, 1995) was a philosopher and social anthropologist, cited as one of the world's "most vigorous intellectuals," http://members.tripod.com/GellnerPage/PStirlingObit.html whose work famously prompted a leader in The Times, followed by a month-long correspondence on the letters page. The Independent called him a "one-man crusade for critical rationalism." (November 8, 1995).

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December 9 - 1925 - November 5 - 1995 - The Times - The Independent - November 8

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As the Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics (LSE) for 22 years, the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge for ten, and finally as head of the new Centre for the Study of Nationalism in Prague, Gellner fought all his life — in his writing, his teaching, and through his political activism — against intellectual tyranny and closed systems of thought, particularly communism, psychoanalysis, linguistic philosophy, relativism, religion, and what he saw as the dictatorship of the free market.

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London School of Economics - University of Cambridge - Prague - Communism - Psychoanalysis - Linguistic philosophy - Relativism - Religion - Free market

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Sociologist David Glass remarked that he wasn't sure whether the next revolution would come from the right or from the left, but he was quite sure that, wherever it came from, the first person to be shot would be Ernest Gellner. http://members.tripod.com/GellnerPage/Obits.html

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