Ernest Gellner

(noun)

Ernest André Gellner (1925 – 1995) was a British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist. Gellner fought all his life—in his writing, his teaching, and through his political activism—against what he saw as closed systems of thought, particularly communism, psychoanalysis, relativism, and the dictatorship of the free market.

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Examples of Ernest Gellner in the following topics:

  • High and Low Culture

    • High culture became an important concept in political theory on nationalism for writers such as Ernest Renan and Ernest Gellner , who saw it as a necessary component of a healthy national identity.
    • Gellner's concept of a high culture extended beyond the arts; he used it to distinguish between different cultures (rather than within a culture), contrasting high cultures with simpler, agrarian low cultures.
    • Ernest André Gellner (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist.

  • Literature

    • Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner, and while largely regarded as a romantic poet, Walt Whitman is sometimes regarded as a pioneer of the modernist era in America.
    • Influenced by the first World War, American modernist writers, such as Ernest Hemingway, offered an insight into the psychological wounds and spiritual scars of the war experience.
    • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is about a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s.

  • The Thomson Model

    • The 1904 Thomson model was disproved by the 1909 gold foil experiment performed by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden.
    • This gold foil experiment was interpreted by Ernest Rutherford in 1911 to suggest that there is a very small nucleus of the atom that contains a very high positive charge (in the case of gold, enough to balance the collective negative charge of about 100 electrons).

  • Assumptions of Social Constructivism

    • Knowledge: To social constructivists, knowledge is also a human product, and is socially and culturally constructed (Ernest, 1999; Gredler, 1997; Prat & Floden, 1994).

  • The Lost Generation

    • This creative outburst was personified by the "Lost Generation", a term popularized by American author Ernest Hemingway that came to identify the group of writers and artists, many of them expatriates, who created some of the most significant works of the period.
    • Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway's young son, Jack, in Paris, 1924.
    • American author Ernest Hemingway, pictured in his 1923 passport photo, coined the term "Lost Generation" to describe those who came of age around World War I.

  • Nuclear Size and Density

    • The first estimate of a nuclear charge radius was made by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden in 1909, under the direction of Ernest Rutherford at the Physical Laboratories of the University of Manchester, UK.

  • Particle Accelerator

    • Nuclear transmutation was first consciously applied to modern physics by Frederick Soddy when he, along with Ernest Rutherford, discovered that radioactive thorium was converting itself into radium in 1901.
    • Rolf Widerøe, Gustav Ising, Leó Szilárd, Donald Kerst and Ernest Lawrence are considered pioneers of the field, conceiving and building the first operational linear particle accelerator, the betatron, and the cyclotron.

  • Intersubjectivity of Social Meanings

    • Communications and interactions entail socially agreed-upon ideas of the world and the social patterns and rules of language use (Ernest, 1999).

  • References

    • Ernest, P.

  • How successful are eco-industrial parks?

    • For over 20 years, Indigo Development (headed by Ernest Lowe) has worked to cultivate, and provide information about, industrial symbiosis and eco-industrial parks.