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    Ernest André Gellner FRAI (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by The Daily Telegraph...
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  • 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...
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    pressures. Unlike Benedict Anderson, Gellner thought nations were not "imagined communities". In his book, Ernest Gellner explained how he thought nations...
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  • suppress deviant behaviour. Human beings, writes social anthropologist Ernest Gellner, are not genetically programmed to be members of this or that social...
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  • nationalism. Prominent modernization scholars, such as Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner and Eric Hobsbawn, say nationalism arose with modernization during the...
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  • Gellner is a Jewish surname, that may refer to: Ernest Gellner (1925–1995), British philosopher František Gellner (1881–1914), Czech writer Julius Gellner...
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    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...
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  • Nations and Nationalism (book) (category Books by Ernest Gellner)
    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...
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  • (Oxford 1996), "Introduction", 8–9 Gellner, Ernest (1983) Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell. Ernest Gellner (1997) Nationalism. London: Weidenfeld...
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  • 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...
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