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. "Words and
Things" was the first determined attempt to state the premises and
operational rules of the movement. The basic charge was that
Linguistic Philosophy was an aberrant, trivializing perversion of
good philosophical practice, substituting, in place of honest
theorizing and argument, pedantic scrutiny of intrinsically
uninteresting detail. When this now-famous critique originally
appeared in 1959, it created a scandal, causing a flurry of
correspondence in the Times. "Words and Things" remains the most
devastating attack on a conventional wisdom in philosophy to this
day.
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