Ernest Gellner (1925–1995)

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1. Ernest Gellner

   Author of Nationalism, The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason, Language and solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg dilemma

2. E. J. Hobsbawm

   Author of The Age of Empire: 1875-1914, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780, Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries

3. Karl Popper

   Author of Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics), The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics), Unended Quest (Routledge Classics)

4. Anthony D. Smith

   Author of National Identity (Ethnonationalism in Comparative Perspective), The Ethnic Origins of Nations, Nationalism and Modernism

5. Benedict Anderson

   Author of Imagined Communities

6. A. J. Ayer

   Author of Language, Truth and Logic, The Problem of Knowledge, Wittgenstein

7. Edward W. Said

   Author of Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism

8. Leszek Kolakowski

   Author of Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown, Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 3: The Breakdown, The Alienation of Reason: A History of Positivist Thought

9. Hannah Arendt

   Author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, On Revolution

10. Albert O. Hirschman

    Author of Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, The Passions and the Interests

11. Dan Sperber

    Author of Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach, Rethinking Symbolism (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology), On Anthropological Knowledge: Three Essays

12. Eugen Weber

    Author of Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914

13. Rogers Brubaker

    Author of Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany

14. Michael Mann

    Author of Fascists, The Sources of Social Power, Vol. 2: The Rise of Classes and Nation States, 1760-1914, The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing

15. Jürgen Habermas

    Author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Legitimation Crisis, Theory and Practice

16. Perry Anderson

    Author of Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from antiquity to feudalism, A Zone of Engagement

17. John Hutchinson

    Author of Nationalism (Oxford Readers)

18. Clifford Geertz

    Author of The Interpretation of Cultures, Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia (Phoenix Books)

19. Max Weber

    Author of From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (2 volume set)

20. Liah Greenfeld

    Author of Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity