Our Way
John Gray, 22 September 1994
Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals
by Ernest Gellner.
Hamish Hamilton, 225 pp., £18.99, August 1994,0 241 00220 6 Show More
by Ernest Gellner.
Hamish Hamilton, 225 pp., £18.99, August 1994,
“... indelibly marked as it is by its historical and intellectual origins in the period of European and North American bourgeois hegemony which endured from the 17th century almost to the present day, can scarcely do justice to the diversity of institutional and cultural forms we see around us now, when the axis of global economic power is tilting away from the ... ”