Metadata : Gellner, Professor Ernest André, 1925-1995, philosopher and social anthropologist
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Holding institution (official language):
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Postal address:
- 25 Southampton BuildingsLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC2A 1PH
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7405 7686
- Web address:
- http://www.lse.ac.uk/library
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Holding institution (official language):
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Postal address:
- 25 Southampton BuildingsLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC2A 1PH
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7405 7686
- Web address:
- http://www.lse.ac.uk/library
- Reference number:
- Gellner
- Title:
- Gellner, Professor Ernest André, 1925-1995, philosopher and social anthropologist
- Title (official language):
- Gellner, Professor Ernest André, 1925-1995, philosopher and social anthropologist
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gellner, Ernest André, 1925-1995, philosopher and social anthropologist
- Date(s):
- 1946/1996
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 84 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Professor Ernest André Gellner, [1946]-1996, notably correspondence with friends and colleagues, [1946-1995], including Professor Sir Isaiah Berlin, Professor (Avram) Noam Chomsky, Professor Bernard Rowland Crick, Professor John Horsley Russell Davis, Professor Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf of Clare Market, Professor Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, Professor Sir Raymond (William) Firth, Professor (Walter) Bryce Gallie, Sir Victor Gollancz, Professor John Rankine (Jack) Goody, Professor Richard Mervyn Hare, Professor Sir Edmund Ronald Leach, Professor Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anne Mary Lonsdale, Professor Alan Donald James Macfarlane, (Jean) Iris Murdoch, Professor Sir Karl (Raimund) Popper, Professor Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, Professor Gilbert Ryle, Professor Edward W Said, Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, George Soros, Professor Alfred Stepan, Professor (Ann) Marilyn Strathern, and Professor Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams; material relating to Gellner's teaching work at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University, 1977-1989, including individual files relating to his PhD students, 1977-1984, and correspondence with Macfarlane regarding the administration of the Anthropology Department at Cambridge, 1988-1989; papers created during Gellner's time as Director of the Centre for the Study of Nationalism at the central European University, 1992-1996, notably correspondence with students, material relating to conferences, Senate papers, documents concerning the financial future of the Centre, details of project funding and grant proposals, and correspondence relating to the Erasmus Chair at Warsaw University; material relating to field trips to Morocco, [1950-1968], probably in connection with Gellner's PhD thesis, including maps, manuscripts, correspondence, field notes, research notes, reports and photographs; manuscripts, 1957-1995, some with corrections, of Gellner's published books and articles, as well as unpublished material, on subjects including anthropology, Islam, social science, nationalism, politics and religion, imperialism, Marxism, the London School of Economics, philosophy, history, culture, psychoanalysis, Eastern Europe, and Russia; offprints and newspaper cuttings of reviews of Gellner's work, 1957-1995, and reviews written by Gellner concerning the work of others, 1960-1995; papers relating to the publishing of books, [1957-1996], including proofs, contracts with publishers, and correspondence; tapes and films, 1982-1990, mainly comprising lectures on philosophy by Gellner; obituaries and papers relating to the memorial service in Prague, 1995.
- Archival history:
- The Gellner papers were given by the family in May 1996, February and November 1997, March 1999, and May 2000. Material relating to the Central European University was transported from Prague by Gaye Woolven in November 1998. Papers relating to Gellner's students were given by the LSE Philosophy Department, via Professor Watkins, in December 1996.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Ernest André Gellner (1925–1995) was born in Paris to Czech Jewish parents, Rudolf Gellner and his wife, Anna. In 1939, the family fled from Nazi-occupied Prague, where Gellner attended the English grammar school, to England. A pupil at St Albans county grammar school, Gellner won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford age 17.He then took up a commission as a Private, Czechoslovakian Armoured Brigade, BLA, 1944-45; on staff of London School of Economics 1949-84, where he received a PhD in Social Anthropology, 1961, and became Professor of Philosophy, 1962-84; Visiting Fellow at Harvard, 1952-53; Co-editor of _European Journal of Sociology_, 1966-84, and _Government and Opposition_, 1980; Visiting Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1968; FBA, 1974; Visiting Fellow, Centre de Recherches et d'Études sur les Sociétés Méditerranéens, Aix-en-Provence, 1978-79; Member of the Council, Social Science Research Council (later Economic and Social Research Council), 1980-86 (Chairman, International Activities Committee, 1982-84); Member of Council, British Academy, 1981-84; Visiting Scholar, Institute of Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1982; William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, 1984-93; Professorial Fellow, 1984-1992, and Supernumerary Fellow, 1992-1995, King's College, Cambridge University; Honorary Fellow, LSE, 1986; Guest of Academy of Sciences of USSR, Moscow, 1988-89; Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1988; President, Royal Anthropological Institute, 1991-94; First President, Society for Moroccan Studies, 1990-[1995]; Tanner Lecturer, Harvard University, 1990; Member, American Philosophical Society, 1992; FRSA, 1992; Member, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, Salzburg, 1993; Resident Professor, and Director, Centre for Study of Nationalism, Central European University, Prague, 1993-[1995]; Visiting Lecturer, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1994; Erasmus Visiting Professor, Warsaw University, 1995; Member of Senate, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 1994-[1995]; Member, Editorial or Advisory Boards for the _British Journal of Sociology_, the _American Journal of Sociology_,_ Inquiry_,_ Middle Eastern Studies_,_ Journal of Peasant Studies_,_ Society and Theory_,_ Government and Opposition_,_ Philosophy of the Social Sciences_,_ Cambridge Archaeological Journal_,_ Journal of Mediterranean Studies_,_ Third World Review_,_ Nations and Nationalism_,_ Anthropology and Archaeology of Eurasia_,_ Sociological Papers_,_ Moderniyzzazio e Sviluppo_; died 1995.Publications:_Cause and meaning in the social sciences_ (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1973); _Contemporary thought and politics_ (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1973); _Legitimation of belief _(Cambridge University Press, 1974); _Options of belief _(South Place Ethical Society, London, 1975); _Saints of the Atlas_ (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969); _The devil in modern philosophy_ (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1974); _Thought and change_ (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1964); _Words and things: a critical account of linguistic philosophy and a study in ideology_ (Victor Gollancz, London, 1959); editor of _Arabs and Berbers: from tribe to nation in North Africa_ (Duckworth, London, 1973); editor of _Populism: its meanings and national characteristics_ (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969); editor of _The nature of human society_ (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1962); _Language and solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Hapsburg dilemma_ (Cambridge University Press, 1998); _Nationalism_ (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1997); _Encounters with nationalism_ (Blackwell, Oxford, 1994); _Anthropology and politics: revolutions in the sacred grove_ (Blackwell, Oxford, 1995); _Liberalism in modern times: essays in honour of José Merquior_ (Central European University Press, Budapest and London, 1996); _Conditions of liberty: civil society and its rivals_ (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1994); _The psychoanalytic movement: the cunning of unreason _(Granada, London, 1985); _Postmodernism, reason and religion_ (Routledge, New York and London,, 1992); _Reason and culture: the historic role of rationality and rationalism_ (Blackwell, Oxford, 1992); _The concept of kinship, and other essays on anthropological method and explanation_ (Blackwell, Oxford, 1987); _Nations and nationalism_ (Blackwell, Oxford, 1983); _Culture, identity and politics _(Cambridge University Press, 1987); _Relativism and the social sciences_ (Cambridge University Press, 1979); _Spectacles and predicaments: essays in social theory_ (Cambridge University Press, 1979); _Muslim society_ (Cambridge University Press, 1981); _Transition to modernity: essays on power, wealth and belief _(Cambridge University Press, 1992); _State and society in Soviet thought_ (Blackwell, Oxford, 1988); _Plough, sword and book: the structure of human history _(Collins Harvill, 1988); editor of _Islamic dilemmas: reformers, nationalists and industrialisation _(Mouton, Berlin, 1985); editor of _Soviet and Western anthropology_ (Duckworth, London, 1980); editor of _Patrons and clients in Mediterranean societies _(Duckworth, London, 1977).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gellner, Ernest
- Access, restrictions:
- Apply to Archivist.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=GELLNER
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
- British Library of Political and Economic Science
- Reference number:
- Gellner
- Title:
- Gellner, Professor Ernest André, 1925-1995, philosopher and social anthropologist
- Title (official language):
- Gellner, Professor Ernest André, 1925-1995, philosopher and social anthropologist
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gellner, Ernest André, 1925-1995, philosopher and social anthropologist
- Date(s):
- 1946/1996
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 84 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Professor Ernest André Gellner, [1946]-1996, notably correspondence with friends and colleagues, [1946-1995], including Professor Sir Isaiah Berlin, Professor (Avram) Noam Chomsky, Professor Bernard Rowland Crick, Professor John Horsley Russell Davis, Professor Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf of Clare Market, Professor Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, Professor Sir Raymond (William) Firth, Professor (Walter) Bryce Gallie, Sir Victor Gollancz, Professor John Rankine (Jack) Goody, Professor Richard Mervyn Hare, Professor Sir Edmund Ronald Leach, Professor Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anne Mary Lonsdale, Professor Alan Donald James Macfarlane, (Jean) Iris Murdoch, Professor Sir Karl (Raimund) Popper, Professor Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, Professor Gilbert Ryle, Professor Edward W Said, Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, George Soros, Professor Alfred Stepan, Professor (Ann) Marilyn Strathern, and Professor Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams; material relating to Gellner's teaching work at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University, 1977-1989, including individual files relating to his PhD students, 1977-1984, and correspondence with Macfarlane regarding the administration of the Anthropology Department at Cambridge, 1988-1989; papers created during Gellner's time as Director of the Centre for the Study of Nationalism at the central European University, 1992-1996, notably correspondence with students, material relating to conferences, Senate papers, documents concerning the financial future of the Centre, details of project funding and grant proposals, and correspondence relating to the Erasmus Chair at Warsaw University; material relating to field trips to Morocco, [1950-1968], probably in connection with Gellner's PhD thesis, including maps, manuscripts, correspondence, field notes, research notes, reports and photographs; manuscripts, 1957-1995, some with corrections, of Gellner's published books and articles, as well as unpublished material, on subjects including anthropology, Islam, social science, nationalism, politics and religion, imperialism, Marxism, the London School of Economics, philosophy, history, culture, psychoanalysis, Eastern Europe, and Russia; offprints and newspaper cuttings of reviews of Gellner's work, 1957-1995, and reviews written by Gellner concerning the work of others, 1960-1995; papers relating to the publishing of books, [1957-1996], including proofs, contracts with publishers, and correspondence; tapes and films, 1982-1990, mainly comprising lectures on philosophy by Gellner; obituaries and papers relating to the memorial service in Prague, 1995.
- Archival history:
- The Gellner papers were given by the family in May 1996, February and November 1997, March 1999, and May 2000. Material relating to the Central European University was transported from Prague by Gaye Woolven in November 1998. Papers relating to Gellner's students were given by the LSE Philosophy Department, via Professor Watkins, in December 1996.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Ernest André Gellner (1925–1995) was born in Paris to Czech Jewish parents, Rudolf Gellner and his wife, Anna. In 1939, the family fled from Nazi-occupied Prague, where Gellner attended the English grammar school, to England. A pupil at St Albans county grammar school, Gellner won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford age 17.He then took up a commission as a Private, Czechoslovakian Armoured Brigade, BLA, 1944-45; on staff of London School of Economics 1949-84, where he received a PhD in Social Anthropology, 1961, and became Professor of Philosophy, 1962-84; Visiting Fellow at Harvard, 1952-53; Co-editor of _European Journal of Sociology_, 1966-84, and _Government and Opposition_, 1980; Visiting Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1968; FBA, 1974; Visiting Fellow, Centre de Recherches et d'Études sur les Sociétés Méditerranéens, Aix-en-Provence, 1978-79; Member of the Council, Social Science Research Council (later Economic and Social Research Council), 1980-86 (Chairman, International Activities Committee, 1982-84); Member of Council, British Academy, 1981-84; Visiting Scholar, Institute of Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1982; William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, 1984-93; Professorial Fellow, 1984-1992, and Supernumerary Fellow, 1992-1995, King's College, Cambridge University; Honorary Fellow, LSE, 1986; Guest of Academy of Sciences of USSR, Moscow, 1988-89; Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1988; President, Royal Anthropological Institute, 1991-94; First President, Society for Moroccan Studies, 1990-[1995]; Tanner Lecturer, Harvard University, 1990; Member, American Philosophical Society, 1992; FRSA, 1992; Member, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, Salzburg, 1993; Resident Professor, and Director, Centre for Study of Nationalism, Central European University, Prague, 1993-[1995]; Visiting Lecturer, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1994; Erasmus Visiting Professor, Warsaw University, 1995; Member of Senate, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 1994-[1995]; Member, Editorial or Advisory Boards for the _British Journal of Sociology_, the _American Journal of Sociology_,_ Inquiry_,_ Middle Eastern Studies_,_ Journal of Peasant Studies_,_ Society and Theory_,_ Government and Opposition_,_ Philosophy of the Social Sciences_,_ Cambridge Archaeological Journal_,_ Journal of Mediterranean Studies_,_ Third World Review_,_ Nations and Nationalism_,_ Anthropology and Archaeology of Eurasia_,_ Sociological Papers_,_ Moderniyzzazio e Sviluppo_; died 1995.Publications:_Cause and meaning in the social sciences_ (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1973); _Contemporary thought and politics_ (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1973); _Legitimation of belief _(Cambridge University Press, 1974); _Options of belief _(South Place Ethical Society, London, 1975); _Saints of the Atlas_ (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969); _The devil in modern philosophy_ (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1974); _Thought and change_ (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1964); _Words and things: a critical account of linguistic philosophy and a study in ideology_ (Victor Gollancz, London, 1959); editor of _Arabs and Berbers: from tribe to nation in North Africa_ (Duckworth, London, 1973); editor of _Populism: its meanings and national characteristics_ (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969); editor of _The nature of human society_ (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1962); _Language and solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Hapsburg dilemma_ (Cambridge University Press, 1998); _Nationalism_ (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1997); _Encounters with nationalism_ (Blackwell, Oxford, 1994); _Anthropology and politics: revolutions in the sacred grove_ (Blackwell, Oxford, 1995); _Liberalism in modern times: essays in honour of José Merquior_ (Central European University Press, Budapest and London, 1996); _Conditions of liberty: civil society and its rivals_ (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1994); _The psychoanalytic movement: the cunning of unreason _(Granada, London, 1985); _Postmodernism, reason and religion_ (Routledge, New York and London,, 1992); _Reason and culture: the historic role of rationality and rationalism_ (Blackwell, Oxford, 1992); _The concept of kinship, and other essays on anthropological method and explanation_ (Blackwell, Oxford, 1987); _Nations and nationalism_ (Blackwell, Oxford, 1983); _Culture, identity and politics _(Cambridge University Press, 1987); _Relativism and the social sciences_ (Cambridge University Press, 1979); _Spectacles and predicaments: essays in social theory_ (Cambridge University Press, 1979); _Muslim society_ (Cambridge University Press, 1981); _Transition to modernity: essays on power, wealth and belief _(Cambridge University Press, 1992); _State and society in Soviet thought_ (Blackwell, Oxford, 1988); _Plough, sword and book: the structure of human history _(Collins Harvill, 1988); editor of _Islamic dilemmas: reformers, nationalists and industrialisation _(Mouton, Berlin, 1985); editor of _Soviet and Western anthropology_ (Duckworth, London, 1980); editor of _Patrons and clients in Mediterranean societies _(Duckworth, London, 1977).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gellner, Ernest
- Access, restrictions:
- Apply to Archivist.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=GELLNER
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
- British Library of Political and Economic Science
