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‘A blobologist in Vodkobuzia‘: Ernest Gellner crossing the Iron Curtain
Event by: Ústav sociálnej antropológie FSEV UK
Location: Fakulta sociálnych a ekonomických vied Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave, Mlynské luhy, Bratislava
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Peter Skalník
Room C042, FSES CU
Abstract: Gellner was originally a refugee in Britain when Iron Curtain was setting between the East and the West. Thus he had no illusions about the nature of totalitarian regimes in the Soviet Union and the „people´s democracies“. But as an anthropologist and philosopher he was intrigued by the changes behind the Iron Curtain, especially in social sciences that were officially under the spell of the dogmas of Marxism-Leninism. We do not know whether he wanted to find some openings in the „granite unity“ of scholarship in the Eastern Bloc or just wondered what kind of brains work in the institutes and departments there. The paper will look at Gellner’s reading of knowledge products of Soviet and East European social science as well as Gellner’s overall views about them.
Room C042, FSES CU
Abstract: Gellner was originally a refugee in Britain when Iron Curtain was setting between the East and the West. Thus he had no illusions about the nature of totalitarian regimes in the Soviet Union and the „people´s democracies“. But as an anthropologist and philosopher he was intrigued by the changes behind the Iron Curtain, especially in social sciences that were officially under the spell of the dogmas of Marxism-Leninism. We do not know whether he wanted to find some openings in the „granite unity“ of scholarship in the Eastern Bloc or just wondered what kind of brains work in the institutes and departments there. The paper will look at Gellner’s reading of knowledge products of Soviet and East European social science as well as Gellner’s overall views about them.
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