Ernest Gellner Quote

The model that can be drawn up, of a plural society in which the multiplicity of forces and institutions prevent any one of their number dominating the rest, and which function on the basis of a broad and non-doctrinaire consensus — this picture does not warm the blood like wine. To appreciate and savour its appeal, one needs a rather sophisticated taste, perhaps.


Contemporary Thought and Politics (1974)


The model that can be drawn up, of a plural society in which the multiplicity of forces and institutions prevent any one of their number dominating...

The model that can be drawn up, of a plural society in which the multiplicity of forces and institutions prevent any one of their number dominating...

The model that can be drawn up, of a plural society in which the multiplicity of forces and institutions prevent any one of their number dominating...

The model that can be drawn up, of a plural society in which the multiplicity of forces and institutions prevent any one of their number dominating...