Words and Things

A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology

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Ernest Gellner

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When Ernest Gellner was 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. "Words and Things" was the first determined attempt to state the premises and operational rules of the movement. The basic charge was 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. When this now-famous critique originally appeared in 1959, it created a scandal, causing a flurry of correspondence in the Times. "Words and Things" remains the most devastating attack on a conventional wisdom in philosophy to this day.

Release date Australia

July 1st, 2011

Author

Ernest Gellner

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Bertrand Russell

Country of Publication

United States

Imprint

Literary Licensing, LLC

Pages

270

Publisher

Literary Licensing, LLC

Dimensions

152x229x19

ISBN-13

9781258060053

Product ID

18281842

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