John Gray (UK London School of Economics)

Enlightenment's Wake

Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age

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Produktbeschreibung

Turning his back on neoliberalism at exactly the moment that its advocates were in their pomp, Grayâ s was a lone voice of scepticism. shows, John Gray has been trying to warn us for some fifteen years â the rest of us are only now catching up with him.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Classics
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU4046Z
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780415424042
• ISBN-10: 0415424046
• Artikelnr.: 22768917

Autorenporträt

John Gray is one of the most internationally renowned and widely read political theorists writing today. The best-selling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, he is currently Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition Preface Acknowledgements 1. Against the new liberalism 2. Notes toward a definition of the political thought of Tlon 3. Toleration: a post-liberal perspective 4. Enlightenment, illusion and the fall of the Soviet state 5. The post-communist societies in transition 6. Agnostic liberalism 7. The undoing of conservatism 8. After the new liberalism 9. From post-liberalism to pluralism 10. Enlightenment's Wake Notes Index

Rezensionen

'Gray is one of our best social and political theorists ... This powerful and radical work opens as many doors as it closes.' - New Statesman

'Gray is a clever and energetic political theorist in the analytical mode. He is also dauntingly well-read and up-to-date.' - Guardian

'Gray is one of our best social and political theorists ... This powerful and radical work opens as many doors as it closes.' - New Statesman

'Gray is a clever and energetic political theorist in the analytical mode. He is also dauntingly well-read and up-to-date.' - Guardian