The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism Gray John
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism Gray John A bold, provocative reckoning with our current political delusions and dysfunctions.Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's…
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The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism Gray John
A bold, provocative reckoning with our current political delusions and dysfunctions.Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. The collapse of the USSR ushered in an era of near apoplectic triumphalism in the West: a genuine belief that a rational, liberal, well-managed future now awaited humankind and that tyranny, nationalism, and unreason lay in the past. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, his cold political vision continues to see through any number of human political and ethical vanities.In his wonderfully stimulating book The New Leviathans, John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors, and disappointments.
Since then, so many terrible events have occurred and so many poisonous ideas have flourished, and