Ernest Gellner was a French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist, born in 1925, whose central themes included modernisation theory and nationalism, the latter of which he developed into a leading theory of nationalism. His multicultural perspective let him engage with both the Western world and the Muslim world. He died in 1995. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Ernest Andre Gellner was a French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist.
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1925-12-09
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1925-12-09
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1995-11-05
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1995-11-05
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Paris, France
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Prague, Czech Republic
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Gellner's theory of nationalism
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