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Ernest Gellner

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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.

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Ernest Andre Gellner was a French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist.
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