372 Pages
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Routledge
368 Pages
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Routledge
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John Gray has become one of our liveliest and most influential political philosophers. This current volume is a sequel to his Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophy . The earlier book ended on a sceptical note, both in respect of what a post-liberal political philosophy might look like, and with respect to the claims of political philosophy itself. John Gray's new book gives post-liberal... Read more
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?;
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John Gray
'There is gold on almost every page and in fact a unifying golden thread runs right through the lot ... [Gray] bids Eastern Europeans to read de Tocqueville, Benjamin Constant and the Great Scots, not Rawls, Dworkin and other decadent successors. I advise them to read Gray.' - Colin Welch, The Times
