Words and Things

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An Examination of, and an Attack on, Linguistic Philosophy, A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

By Ernest Gellner

Series: Routledge Classics

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Words and Things captures Ernest Gellner's bold early challenge to the dominant Linguistic Philosophy of his time. With a foreword by Bertrand Russell, this pioneering work lays out the core premises and rules of the movement. Gellner's critique remains a powerful and influential philosophical argument against accepted norms.
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Ideal for readers interested in philosophy and psychology, especially those fascinated by 20th-century intellectual debates and linguistic philosophy.

Gellner wrote that linguistic philosophy was an aberrant trivializing perversion of good philosophical practice, substituting, in place of honest theorizing and argument, pedantic scrutiny of intrinsically uninteresting detail. This title remains the most devastating attack on a conventional wisdom in philosophy to this day.

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When Ernest Gellner was in 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 conventional wisdom to this day.

Series: Routledge Classics

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415345484

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 January 2005

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 424g

Pages: 392

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Ernest Gellner Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Series: Routledge Classics

About the Author

Ernest Gellner (1925 - 1995) A Central European émigré who made his home in England, Gellner was famed for constructing academic theories on linguistic philosophy and nationalism.