1. Ernest Gellner
... , said that Gellner's work, at it's core, was to try and understand the transformation of the world from " the agrarian religious world and the industrial scientific one" which Gellner said (Davis, Vol.32) " has always been for me absolutely central to understanding the world." Ernest Gellner was born December 9, 1925 in Paris, France. He was raised in Prague until 1938, at ... London School of Economics, becoming Professor of Philosophy with Special Reference to Sociology and finally Professor or Philosophy. He remained at LSE for 35 years before moving to Cambridge as William Wyse Prof...
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