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Quotes from The crisis in the humanities and in the mainstream of philosophy — Ernest Gellner

1925–1995 Czech Republic

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The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes ‘forms of life’ for granted (and this is what philosophy has been recently), but in the systematic study of forms of life which does not take them for granted at all.

The crisis in the humanities and in the mainstream of philosophy (1964)

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