Relatos de ultratumba.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Ernest Gellner hace en esta obra un replanteamiento total de la historia de la civilización occidental sin desdeñar los aspectos religiosos o bélicos; incluso las causas de la violencia humana se infieren de la exposición de las necesidades del hombre desde sus más tempranos intentos por asociarse, organizarse y jerarquizarse. Desde los más sencillos agrupamientos humanos, como los clanes o tribus, el autor revisa el papel cambiante de la simbología conceptual.

El otoño de un ideal quiere ser una aproximación a la lenta agonía de los ideales republicanos en el exilio posterior a 1939. Privados del solar y de los elementos que los nutrían en España, esos ideales languidecieron a lo largo de cuatro décadas en tierras de América y Francia. Aquello que había sido un horizonte de esperanza para miles de españoles, la República, se desvanece al atravesar la bruma atlántica. Con esa promesa de liberación, quedan por el camino los valores reformistas, laicos, liberales y cívicos que la sostenían. En estas páginas se recuperan esos esfuerzos...