Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age

ISBN-13: 9780415124751 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 216 str.

John Gray;Gray John; John Gray

Opis

Now in paperback, Enlightenment's Wake stakes out the elements of John Gray's new position. He argues that all schools of contemporary political thought are variations on the Enlightenment Project - the Westernizing project of a universal civilization - and that this Enlightenment Project has proved self-undermining and is now exhausted. Fresh thought is needed on the dilemmas of the late modern age.

Spis treści

Preface Acknowledgements 1.Against the New Liberalism 2.Notes Towards a Definition of the Political Thought of Tlon 3.Toleration: a Postliberal Perspective 4.Western Illusion, Enlightenment and the Fall of the Soviet State 5.The Postcommunist Societies in Transition 6.Agonistic Liberalism 7.The Undoing of Conservatism 8.After the New 10.Enlightenment's Wake Notes Index

O autorze

John Gray is a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He has been visiting professor at Harvard, Yale and Tulane universities.