Enlightenment's Wake Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age Routledge Classics Series
Auteur : Gray John
John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern whichbrought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists.
Gray wrote Enlightenment?s Wake in 1995 ? six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and six years before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Turning his back on neoliberalism at exactly the moment that its advocates were in their pomp, trumpeting 'the end of history' and the supposedly unstoppable spread of liberal values across the globe, Gray?s was a lone voice of scepticism. The thinking he criticised here would lead ultimately to the invasion of Iraq. Today, its folly might seem obvious to all, but as this edition of Enlightenment?s Wake shows, John Gray has been trying to warn us for some fifteen years ? the rest of us are only now catching up with him.
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.
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Good Life; Civil Society; project; Enlightenment Project; western; Agonistic Liberal; style; Contemporary Societies; civil; Market Institutions; society; Liberal Civil Society; market; Western Style Civil Society; institutions; GATT Agreement; agonistic; Hobbesian Peace; liberal; Violates; peaceful; Social Market Perspective; Postcommunist States; Pluralist Political Order; Post-communist States; Recent Political Philosophy; Classical Political Rationalism; Postcommunist Countries; Shock Therapy; Western Exemplars; Contemporary Political Philosophy; Rawlsian Liberalism; Rich North Atlantic Democracies; Universal Minimum; East European Communist Regimes