John Gray

Post-Liberalism (eBook, ePUB)

Studies in Political Thought

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The leading philosopher of the right, John Gray, criticizes conventional academic thinking and identifies that which is of value in liberalism, looking to traditions of practice rather than theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136175879
• Artikelnr.: 40446190

Autorenporträt

John Gray

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I Thinkers
Chapter 1 Hobbes and the modern state
Chapter 2 Santayana and the critique of liberalism
Chapter 3 Hayek as a conservative
Chapter 4 Oakeshott as a liberal
Chapter 5 Buchanan on liberty
Chapter 6 Berlin's agonistic liberalism
Part II Critiques
Chapter 7 The system of ruins
Chapter 8 The delusion of glasnost
Chapter 9 The academic romance of Marxism
Chapter 10 Philosophy, science and myth in Marxism
Chapter 11 Against Cohen on proletarian unfreedom
Chapter 12 Totalitarianism, reform and civil society
Chapter 13 Western Marxism: a fictionalist deconstruction
Chapter 14 Post-totalitarianism, civil society and limits of the Western model
Chapter 15 Political power, social theory and essential contestability
Chapter 16 An epitaph for liberalism
Chapter 17 The end of history - or of liberalism?
Part III Questions
Chapter 18 The politics of cultural diversity
Chapter 19 Conservatism, individualism and the political thought of the New Right
Chapter 20 What is dead and what is living in liberalism?