An Intellectual Biography
An Intellectual Biography
"Ernest Gellner (1925-95) was a multilingual polymath and a public intellectual who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam. Having grown up in Paris, Prague, and England, he was one of the last great Jewish thinkers from Central Europe to experience directly the impact of the Holocaust.
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Ernest Gellner (1925-95) was one of the last great thinkers from Central Europe to be condemned by his Jewish background to experience the worst horrors of the twentieth century. He was a multilingual polymath, able to set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam. This title presents an account of Gellner's life.