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Words and Things (Routledge Classics) Book

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. The first determined attempt to state the premises and operational rules of the movement, Words and Things remains philosophy's most devastating attack on a conventional wisdom to this day.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    When Ernest Gellner was in his early thirties, he took it upon himself to challenge linguistic philosophy, the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day. Finding a powerful ally in Bertrand Russell, who provided the foreword for this book...

  • Waterstones

    First published in 1959, this classic challenge to the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, remains the most devastating attack on a conventional wisdom in philosophy to this day.

  • Product Description

    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.

    The first determined attempt to state the premises and operational rules of the movement, Words and Things remains philosophy's most devastating attack on a conventional wisdom to this day.

  • 0415345480
  • 9780415345484
  • Ernest Gellner
  • 18 January 2005
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
  • 2
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