Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma Book

100x better than the pompous Stephen Toulmin book we all read (or told one another we read) in the 70s about Vienna and Wittgenstein, this is Gellner's last completed book, which somehow I was unaware of.
Gellner's thesis is that there is a dichotomy between left and right; and also between rationalists and romanticists - which cuts across left and right - there are rightwing rationalists and romanticists and leftwing ditto and ditto. However in the last 50 years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the regime consisted of a few rationalists - often Jewish and other highly educated believers in science and the dispassionate bureaucratic empire - surrounded by romantics on all sides, who believed in their national/folkish/communal destiny as Hungarians, Czechs, Slovenes, etc. Ironic for the Jews, who elsewhere in Europe tended to be left-wing Romantics, because the definition of national identity in these pre-Versailles days tended to be - well, let's get rid of the Jews and those who remain will be the pure stock of Ruritanians (in Gellner's standard joke about the nationalities). (There is a wonderful moment in Peter Drucker's memoirs when he tells a story of Franz Josef pleading with - perhaps his father? - a valued civil servant, to oblige him by just going through a baptismal ceremony - it can be in the middle of the night, no one will see - because, "you see, Herr Drucker, I am supposed to be running a Holy Roman empire."
This explains Wittgenstein's two phases of philosophy - one completely rationalist and reductive (the Tractatus), growing out of his youth as an unusually brave soldier of the Emperor; the second completely contradicting the first, in the Philosophical Investigations, in which he goes all Romantic/folky/community.
I can't wait to see what happens with Malinowski, can you? Sorry to leave you hanging like this...