Ernest Gellner subject-biography-memoir Paul Robbins

Paul Robbins

the motive force behind war

a post-industrial revolution where spending on culture would solve everything

The profound forces of all-American nativism have

or breakthroughs like Freudian psychoanalysis—and we need hardly mention the failure of actually existing Communism

Ernest Gellner subject-biography-memoir Paul RobbinsErnest Gellner was a multilingual polymath who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam for an entire generation of academics and students. This definitive biography follows his trajectory from his early years in Prague, Paris and England to international success as a philosopher and public intellectual. Known both for his highly integrated philosophy of modernity and for combining a respect for nationalism with an