Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals

By Ernest Gellner

Book Overview

A distinguished scholar's provocative analysis of the political forces transforming post-Communist Eastern Europe. What is filling the void left by the fall of Communism in the ex-Soviet Union and Eastern Europe? In this groundbreaking book, one of Europe's most distinguished social anthropologists addresses this question through an examination of the idea of the civil society, which is rooted in the Enlightenment's belief that society can be organized rationally.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713991143
• ISBN13: 9780713991147
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.8"