![]() ![]() ![]() There have been transitions from societies based on a stable technology, a stable faith, hierarchical organization, cultural stratification, and all the rest of it to societies based upon economic growth, a kind of universal bribery fund with a commitment to secure material improvement. 1991.) 'The difference between the agrarian religious world and the industrial scientific one has always been for me absolutely central to understanding the world.' 'The emergence of an open system in north-western Europe.is a central fact about the world, about the human condition. (Interview with John Davis, May 1990, published in Current Anthropology, vol.32, no.1, Feb. This he described in an interview in 1990 as follows. His own life, poised between thought systems and cultures, had put him in an unique position to appreciate the 'great transformation' of modernity. Yet at the core of his work was an historical question. Many of his twenty books were concerned with philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Hamish Hamilton 1994, republished by Penguin Books, 1996, 225ppĪnthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred GroveĮrnest Gellner, who died on 5 November 1995, was one of the great polymaths of the century. ![]() Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and its Rivals ![]()
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