#1 National Bestseller Our society, John Ralston Saul argues, is only superficially based on the individual and democracy. Increasingly it is conformist and corporatist, a society in which legitimacy lies with specialist or interest groups and decisions are made through constant negotiations between these groups. Awards:
Governor General's Award: Nonfiction
Winner (1996) Gordon Montador Award
Winner (1996) . . . the best work of popular political philosophizing produced in this country in a decade or more.
- Globe and Mail . . . The Unconscious Civilization has a compact, incisive elegance that bristles with epigrammatic wit . . .
- Maclean's John Ralston Saul is the author of the bestselling Voltaire's Bastards, The Doubter's Companion, Reflections of a Siamese Twin, and On Equilibrium. His other books include the novels The Paradise Eater, The Next Best Thing, and The Birds of Prey.
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