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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Gellner, Ernest
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| Publisher: |
University of Chicago Press
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| Date: |
03/02/1992
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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Philosophical anthropology on the grandest scale. . . .Gellner has produced a sharp challenge to his colleagues and a thrilling book for the non-specialist. Deductive history on this scale cannot be proved right or wrong, but this is Gellner writing, incisive, iconoclastic, witty and expert. His scenario compels our attention.--Adam Kuper,
New Statesman A thoughtful and lively meditation upon probably the greatest transformation in human history, upon the difficult problems it poses and the scant resources it has left us to solve them.--Charles Larmore,
New Republic
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