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Ernest Gellner, 1925-1995. European rationalist philosopher who wrote and debated on a wide range of topics, but was especially active in anthropology.

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• Defining "Nation"

  http://www.nationalismproject.org/what/gellner2.htm
  An excerpt from Gellner's 1983 classic, Nations and Nationalism.

• Ernest Gellner

  http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/gellner.html
  Cosma Shalizi's ruminations on this thinker, and a bibliography.

• Ernest Gellner 1925-1995

  http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Gellner/Gellner.html
  Several obituaries of this Czech-British polymath.

• Lecture by Ernest Gellner

  http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/Gellner.html
  QuickTime movie of a speech delivered by Gellner in 1989 describing the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• Notes on Words and Things

  http://www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/philos/bibliog/gelln59.htm
  Notes by Roger Bishop Jones on some key points raised in Gellner's 1959 assault on ordinary language philosophy.

• Wikipedia: Ernest Gellner

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Gellner
  Entry from this openly-edited encyclopedia.

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