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Language and Solitude - Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma (Paperback)
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Language and Solitude - Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma (Paperback)
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Ernest Gellner (1925-95) has been described as 'one of the last
great central European polymath intellectuals'. His last book,
first published in 1998, throws light on two leading thinkers of
their time. Wittgenstein, arguably the most influential and the
most cited philosopher of the twentieth century, is famous for
having propounded two radically different philosophical positions.
Malinowski, the founder of modern British social anthropology, is
usually credited with being the inventor of ethnographic fieldwork,
a fundamental research method throughout the social sciences. In a
highly original way, Gellner shows how the thought of both men grew
from a common background of assumptions - widely shared in the
Habsburg Empire of their youth - about human nature, society, and
language. Tying together themes which preoccupied him throughout
his working life, Gellner epitomizes his belief that philosophy -
far from 'leaving everything as it is' - is about important
historical, social and personal issues.
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