Should-Read: Ernest Gellner (1990): The Civil and the Sacred: “The bourgeois fantasy lay in its doctrine that work was the very essence of man… http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/02/weekend-reading-from-ernest-gellner-1990-the-civil-and-the-sacred.html …that productive institutions and processes were crucial… and that this domination of historic development by the productive process would in due course lead to total human fulfillment through free, spontaneous, … Continue reading Should-Read: Ernest Gellner (1990): The Civil and the Sacred