Download or read book The Devil in Modern Philosophy written by Ernest Gellner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and discussions on the setting of philosophy in the general culture of England and America.