Ernest André Gellner (December 9, 1925 – November 5, 1995) was a philosopher and social anthropologist, cited as one of the world's "most vigorous intellectuals" Stirling, Paul. Ernest Gellner Obituary, Daily Telegraph, November 9, 1995. and a "one-man crusade for critical rationalism," O'Leary, Brendan. "Ernest Gellner Remembered", The Independent, November 8, 1995. whose first book Words and Things famously, and uniquely for a philosopher, prompted a leader in The Times and a month-long correspondence on its letters page.

As the Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics (LSE) for 22 years, the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge for ten, and finally as head of the new Centre for the Study of Nationalism in Prague, Gellner fought all his life — in his writing, his teaching, and through his political activism — against intellectual tyranny and closed systems of thought, particularly communism, psychoanalysis, linguistic philosophy, relativism, religion, and what he saw as the dictatorship of the free market.

The sociologist David Glass remarked "that he wasn't sure whether the next revolution would come from the right or from the left; but he was quite sure that, wherever it came from, the first person to be shot would be Ernest Gellner." Davies, John. "Ernest Gellner", The Guardian, November 7, 1995.

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