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%T Ernest Gellner - A Great European: In Memoriam Professor Ernest Gellner %A Musil, Jiri %J Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review %N 1 %P 97-99 %V 4 %D 1996 %K Intellectual History %= 2009-11-19T16:48:00Z %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-53168 %X The 20th-century sociologist Ernest Gellner is eulogized. Gellner's intellectual background is traced through his studies in philosophy & economics, & the influence of the work of Karl Popper on his career is considered. It is proposed that Popper's critical rationalism & anthropological functionalism were an important foundation for Gellner & his intellectual thought. Gellner believed that science was the most reliable system to understand the human race; his fundamental philosophy was a strong devotion to empiricism that would allow for boundless progress. %C MISC %G en %9 nekrology %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info