附註:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Prepare to meet thy doom; Chapter 2 Myth, ideology and revolution; Chapter 3 Democracy and industrialization; Chapter 4 Contemporary thought and politics; Chapter 5 Behind the barricades at LSE; Chapter 6 The panther and the dove; Chapter 7 How to live in anarchy; Chapter 8 The concept of a story; Chapter 9 Our current sense of history; Chapter 10 Ernst Kolman: or, knowledge and communism; Chapter 11 Scale and nation; Chapter 12 The pluralist anti-levellers of Prague; Chapter 13 The dangers of tolerance.
摘要: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.
