Conditions of Liberty

Name: Conditions of Liberty
Author: Ernest Gellner

by Ernest Gellner

Argument that civil society and rule of law require surveillance, division, and trust

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Ernest Gellner

Czech-British philosopher and social anthropologist whose Nations and Nationalism provided the most concise and powerful theory of nationalism as a product of industrial modernity. Plough, Sword and Book offered a comprehensive theory of human history. He was one of the most intellectually productive social scientists of his generation.

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