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100	1		_aGellner, Ernest.
245	1	0	_aPlough, sword, and book : _bthe structure of human history / _cErnest Gellner.
250			_aPbk. ed.
260			_aChicago : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c1990, c1988.
300			_a288 p. ; _c23 cm.
500			_aInclude index
520			_a"British philosopher/anthropologist Gellner offers a comprehensive theory of history: humans settle into agriculture, produce surpluses, and divide into complex subgroups. Communication becomes pressing. Written language emerges as a controlling super-reality, bringing a Platonic illusion of an eternal world. Gradually, facts take precedence over concepts and "objective knowledge" is born. This scheme takes us from the tribal society to the Royal Society, but Gellner has not met all the challenges. There are still those who think that real knowledge is offered only by theology, or Platonic mathematical and logical reality, or a society free of class tension. And Franz Borkenau urged in End and Beginning (LJ 1/11/81) that all knowable reality is powerfully shaped by language. Thought-provoking but not conclusive."--Www.amazon (Nov. 8, 2010).
650		0	_aHistory _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aHistoriography.
650		0	_aAnthropology.
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