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Recollection in Anxiety: Thought and Change Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Ernest Gellner
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DESPITE EVERYTHING, THE DECADES BETWEEN 1945 AND THE oil crisis will in retrospect be seen as a new belle époque. The basic features of our social and ideological landscape have not changed since, yet somehow the sky has become darker, lowering and menacing. There is a sense of civilization, liberty, decency being in a state of siege, more deeply precarious than before, more fragde, and also more rotten and betrayed from within.

Why, all in all, had things seemed so good? Indeed, we had never had it so good, in a variety of senses. Now it feels as if we were going to pay for it.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 15 , Issue 3-4 , 01 July 1980 , pp. 376 - 388
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1980

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