Philosophy: Philosophers: G: Gellner, Ernest

An excerpt from Gellner's 1983 classic, Nations and Nationalism.

Cosma Shalizi's ruminations on this thinker, and a bibliography.

Several obituaries of this Czech-British polymath.

Comprehensive resource site including excerpts from this philosopher's writings, commentaries on him, bibliography and biography.

QuickTime movie of a speech delivered by Gellner in 1989 describing the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Notes by Roger Bishop Jones on some key points raised in Gellner's 1959 assault on ordinary language philosophy.

Entry from this openly-edited encyclopedia.