Gellner, Ernest

Ernst Gellner (1925-1995), profesor-cercetator la Central European University, membru fondator si director al Centre for the Study of Nationalism, este recunoscut ca teoretician al modernitatii, "excelent orator, profesor inzestrat, un exemplar al acelei specii rare de savant al secolului XX". Dintre volumele aparute sub semnatura lui amintim: Words and Things (1959), Thought and change (1964), Spectacles and Predicaments (1979), Nations and Nationalism (1983), The Psychoanalytic Movement (1985), Culture, Identity and Politics (1987), State and Society in Soviet Thought (1988), Plough, Sword and Book (1988), Encounters with Nationalism (1994), Conditiile libertatii. Societatea civila si dusmanii ei, traducere in limba romana la Editura Polirom, in colectia Stiinte politice. Opus.