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Legitimation of Belief
- GenresPhilosophyAnthropology
217 pages, Hardcover
First published January 16, 1975
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Ernest Gellner
55 books105 followersErnest Gellner was a prominent British-Czech philosopher, social anthropologist, and writer on nationalism.
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August 29, 2012
Randomly picked this one off the shelf in the college library, and it became one of my all-time favorite books. Gellner has such clear sight and a clear style in presenting and working through central problems of philosophy, and not as an abstract academic game but as a set of real problems faced by people trying to get by in an (apparently) material universe as (apparently) spiritual beings.
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