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When Ernest Gellner was his early thirties, he took it upon himself to challenge the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, Linguistic Philosophy. Finding a powerful ally in Bertrand Russell, who provided the foreword for this book, Gellner embarked on the project that was to put him on the intellectual map. The first determined attempt to state the premises and operational rules of the movement, Words and Things remains philosophy's most devastating attack on a conventional wisdom to this day.

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9781138142367, titled "Words and Things: An Examination Of, and an Attack On, Linguistic Philosophy" | 2 revised edition (Routledge, March 30, 2016), cover price $165.00

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9780415345484, titled "Words And Things: An Examination Of, And An Attack On, Linguistic Philosophy" | 2 edition (Routledge, April 1, 2005), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: When Ernest Gellner was his early thirties, he took it upon himself to challenge the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, Linguistic Philosophy.
9780710002853 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1, 1979, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: When Ernest Gellner was his early thirties, he took it upon himself to challenge the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, Linguistic Philosophy.

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Product Description: A discussion of the social and political organization of Berber tribes in the Middle East and North Africa.

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9781597400459 | Acls History E-Book Project, October 12, 2006, cover price $51.00 | About this edition: A discussion of the social and political organization of Berber tribes in the Middle East and North Africa.

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9781597404631 | Acls History E-Book Project, November 30, 2008, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: A discussion of the social and political organization of Berber tribes in the Middle East and North Africa.

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9780801416620 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 1, 1983, cover price $37.95

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9781405134422 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, January 13, 2007), cover price $22.01
9780801492631 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 1, 1983, cover price $16.95

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9780631234128 | 3 edition (Blackwell Pub, October 30, 2004), cover price $59.95
9780810113695 | Northwestern Univ Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $52.00

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9780631234135 | 3 edition (Blackwell Pub, February 3, 2003), cover price $52.95
9780810113701 | Northwestern Univ Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $27.95

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Product Description: This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts drawn from within a given society to its understanding, and the relation of theory to time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780415302968, titled "Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences: Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences" | Routledge, May 1, 2003, cover price $300.00 | About this edition: This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship.

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Product Description: Gellner's political philosophy in these volumes combines the down-to-earth realism of political sociology with a rational treatment of the normative issues of traditional political thought. In these essays Gellner strives to understand the religions of nationalism, communism and democracy, returning again and again to the basic values of the liberal: social tolerance, rational criticism, human decency and justice...read more

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9780415302975 | Routledge, May 1, 2003, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: Gellner's political philosophy in these volumes combines the down-to-earth realism of political sociology with a rational treatment of the normative issues of traditional political thought.

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Product Description: The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R...read more

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9780415302982 | Reissue edition (Routledge, October 1, 2003), cover price $300.00 | About this edition: The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R.

Miscellaneous:

9780203011355 | Routledge, March 27, 2003, cover price $195.00 | also contains The Devil in Modern Philosophy

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Product Description: Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) has been described as "one of the last great central European polymath intellectuals." In this, his last book, he throws new light on two key figures of the twentieth century: the philosopher Wittgenstein, and Malinowski, founder of modern British social anthropology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521630023 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $55.99 | About this edition: Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) has been described as "one of the last great central European polymath intellectuals.

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9780521639972 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) has been described as "one of the last great central European polymath intellectuals.

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Product Description: A defining force in world history, nationalism remains an inescapable feature of a modern condition. It has underpinned the emergence of many states, and the conflict it has often generated has caused enormous suffering, both directly and indirectly...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780814731130 | New York Univ Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A defining force in world history, nationalism remains an inescapable feature of a modern condition.

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Product Description: Western democracies are "open societies" in which neither the state nor religion try to achieve a monopoly of power or the exclusive claim on people's hearts. In between the state and the family are countless other institutions from Trade Unions to stamp collecting clubs, from student organisations to churches and protest movements...read more

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9780713991147 | Penguin USA, December 1, 1994, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Argues that the major difference between communism and Western democracy was the existence of intermediary institutions, such as trade unions, political parties, religions, and clubs

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9780140236057 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 1, 1996), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Western democracies are "open societies" in which neither the state nor religion try to achieve a monopoly of power or the exclusive claim on people's hearts.

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Product Description: The premature death in 1991 of the Brazilian essayist, thinker and diplomat José G. Merquior robbed the international intellectual community of a gifted "friend of reason and a defender of modernity". Several essays in this volume, directly or indirectly, broadly or personally, pay tribute to the life and work of this "politically engaged0 intellectual"...read more
By Cesar Cansino Ortiz (editor), Ernest Gellner (editor) and J. G. Merquior (editor)

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9781858660523 | Central European Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: The premature death in 1991 of the Brazilian essayist, thinker and diplomat José G.

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9781858660530 | Central European Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The premature death in 1991 of the Brazilian essayist, thinker and diplomat José G.

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Product Description: In exploring the role of nationalism in this century, Ernest Gellner considers first the ideas of the main modern thinkers on the subject, from Marx, List, Malonowski and Carr, to Masaryk, Heidegger, Patocka, Hroch, Havel and Said...read more

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9780631194798 | Blackwell Pub, March 1, 1995, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: In exploring the role of nationalism in this century, Ernest Gellner considers first the ideas of the main modern thinkers on the subject, from Marx, List, Malonowski and Carr, to Masaryk, Heidegger, Patocka, Hroch, Havel and Said.

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9780631194811 | Blackwell Pub, February 27, 1995, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: The forecast demise of nationalism under the new moral orders of communism and internationalism has proved illusory.

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9788475099903, titled "Posmodernismo, razon y religion / Postmodernism, Reason and Religion" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, October 20, 1994, cover price $25.95

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Product Description: Since the 17th century, Western society has had a turbulent relationship with Reason. Descartes set out to reorganize all his opinions in the light of Reason, allowing, as Pascal bitterly reproached him, nothing else. In the course of the centuries which followed, the relationship with Reason became the object of a vigorous, often passionate debate...read more

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9780631134794 | Blackwell Pub, March 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Since the 17th century, Western society has had a turbulent relationship with Reason.

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9780631137115 | Blackwell Pub, April 1, 1992, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Since the 17th century, Western society has had a turbulent relationship with Reason.

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Product Description: This collection of essays is concerned with philosophy, politics and society. The first group examines what philosophers such as Hegel, Wittgenstein and Chomsky have said or implied about the nature of society in general. A second group examines the cognitive predicament, questions concerning the nature of the possibility of knowledge, as handled by a thinker such as Descartes, or the Pragmatist tradition...read more

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9780521224864 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1979, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: This collection of essays is concerned with philosophy, politics and society.

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9780521424349 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1991), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: This collection of essays is concerned with philosophy, politics and society.

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Product Description: Part of the "Paladin Movements and Ideas" series, this book is an exploration of the latter half of the 19th century, explaining where Sigmund Freud came from and why he happened when he did. The psychoanalytic movement went on to become one of the major movements in the 20th century...read more

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9780586084366 | Grafton Books, April 1, 1991, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Part of the "Paladin Movements and Ideas" series, this book is an exploration of the latter half of the 19th century, explaining where Sigmund Freud came from and why he happened when he did.

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Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present

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9780226287027 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 2, 1992), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present

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