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L'esprit viennois : une histoire intellectuelle et sociale, 1848-1938
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ISSN: 02910489 ISBN: 2130436374 9782130436379 Year: 1985 Volume: 124 Publisher: Paris: PUF,

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Language and solitude : Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and the Habsburg dilemma
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ISBN: 0521639972 0521630029 0511016093 0511050860 051161246X 051115187X 0511172958 0511323271 1280420197 1107115353 9780511016097 9780511172953 9780511612466 9780521630023 9780521639972 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Ernest Gellner (1925-95) has been described as 'one of the last great central European polymath intellectuals'. His last book, first published in 1998, throws light on two leading thinkers of their time. Wittgenstein, arguably the most influential and the most cited philosopher of the twentieth century, is famous for having propounded two radically different philosophical positions. Malinowski, the founder of modern British social anthropology, is usually credited with being the inventor of ethnographic fieldwork, a fundamental research method throughout the social sciences. In a highly original way, Gellner shows how the thought of both men grew from a common background of assumptions - widely shared in the Habsburg Empire of their youth - about human nature, society, and language. Tying together themes which preoccupied him throughout his working life, Gellner epitomizes his belief that philosophy - far from 'leaving everything as it is' - is about important historical, social and personal issues.


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L'esprit viennois : une histoire intellectuelle et sociale, 1848-1938
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ISSN: 03385930 ISBN: 213039101X 9782130391012 Year: 1985 Volume: 4 Publisher: Paris: PUF,


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Stefan Zweig : Abschied von Europa
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ISBN: 9783850336581 3850336581 Year: 2014 Publisher: Wien: Christian Brandstätter,

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