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The Phoney Revolution

Ernest Gellner Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays ? ' F. Strawson (Methuen £3.20) This is a collection of eleven essays 17 ,; Professor Strawson, most of which had bee",......

Dead Duck Democracy

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