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1951/1952 Gellner reviews Hampshire's Pelican book on Spinoza

The MS of this review is to be found among Gellner's papers at the LSE.  To the best of my knowledge it was never published.  The indication of the price suggests that it was written for one of the political weeklies, or one of the quality newspapers of the time.  It is possible that in due course it will be found to have appeared.

1961 Gellner reviews his colleague Donald G. MacRae

The MS of this review is in Box 53 of Gellner's papers at the LSE.  To the best of my knowledge it was never published.  The indication of the price suggests that it was written for one of the political weeklies, or one of the quality newspapers of the time.  It is possible that in due course it will be found to have appeared.  The original typescript is rather faint, so a transcript is published here.

1973  Gellner reviews Norris, Saharan Myth and Saga

Gellner sent this MS review directly to me with, as can be seen, the note "For Man".  However, the review of this book in Man is by a different hand.  I have searched electronically all Gellner's usual outlets for reviews and have drawn a blank.  The indication of the price suggests that it might have been written for one of the political weeklies, or one of the quality newspapers.  It is possible that in due course it will be found to have appeared.

1988  Identity, Symbolism and Politics

This interesting piece was especially written for a volume of papers by Polish sociologists tentatively entitled The Battle of Symbols, to be edited by Zdzislaw Mach and Jan Kubik.  Chris Hann was trying to help arrange publication.  No publisher was found.  Written the year before the collapse of the Soviet Eastern European empire, it articulates and links a number of Gellner's preoccupations of the time.  The missing footnote could well have referred to papers in the proposed volume and other works with which Gellner was familiar.

1990  Conference on Ethics and Politics, Bratislava

An unpublished sketch of a conference that had raised hight hopes.

1991  Gellner on feudalism, communism, postcommunism, and Poland

Gellner sent this MS directly to me with a covering compliments slip stating that it was a preface for a book by Dr. Janine Wedel to be published by Columbia University Press.  It was dot-matrix from which, via OCR, I have created the pdf.