Earnest Gellner

Contemporary Thought and Politics (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In these essays Gellner strives to understand the religions of nationalism, communism and democracy returning again and again to the basic values of the liberal: social tolerance, rational criticism, human decency and justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134413324
• Artikelnr.: 42636410

Autorenporträt

Gellner, Ernest

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Prepare to meet thy doom: A sermon on the ambivalences of progress
reason
liberty
equality and fraternity
2. Myth
ideology and revolution
3. Democracy and industrialization
4. Contemporary thought and politics
5. Behind the barricades at LSE
6. The panther and the dove: Reflections on rebelliousness and its milieux
7. How to live in anarchy
8. The concept of a story
9. Our current sense of history
10. Ernst Kolman: or
knowledge and communism
11. Scale and nation
12. The pluralist anti-levellers of Prague
13. The dangers of tolerance
14. On democracy in France
Sources
Index of names
Index of subjects