by Ernest Gellner · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140236057
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«Conditions of Liberty» is Ernest Gellner's essay on political philosophy, published by Penguin in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Analysis of the political transformations shaking Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. Gellner asks what fills the void left by the end of the Soviet regime and examines the Enlightenment idea of civil society, which trusts in a rational organization of coexistence, and the rival models that challenge it.
Part of the Penguin History collection from Penguin Books.
For readers of political philosophy, sociology, and contemporary history interested in Eastern Europe and the debate on civil society.
Ernest André Gellner was a French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist. Central themes in his social thought included modernisation theory and nationalism, the latter of which he developed into a leading theory. His multicultural perspective allowed him to engage with the Western world, the Muslim world, and Russian civilization.
