The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by Amazonundefined

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'One of the most important thinkers alive' The Times Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, Hobbes' cold political vision continues to see through any number of 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 through a
Recenzja
A timely meditation on the passing of the liberal age, and on the life and afterlives of its grandfather, Thomas Hobbes.
Composed with Grays characteristic erudition and taste for the ironies of intellectual history,
The New Leviathans
is a provocative delight
, even as the authors premonitions about the world to come are thoroughly discomfiting. -- Sohrab Ahmari
New Statesman
Post-Scruton, John Gray is
Britains best philosopher
and he knocks it out of the park with a book that details the unravelling of the Western order.
The Telegraph
Gray is conscientiously illusionless, scrupulously refusing to believe in any of the ideals and comforting dreams that humans use to protect themselves against reality. This, perhaps, explains his popularity with my own much-disillusioned generation ... Grays philosophy is the thread that joins my friends of disparate political inclinations. -- James Marriott
The Times
An elegy for western liberalism ... a bracing thinker. -- Stuart Jeffries
Daily Telegraph
Gray is a voracious, indeed an omnivorous, reader and a vivid writer
, the essays are individually enjoyable and interesting ... crisp, critical analysis. -- Alan Ryan
Literary Review
It confronts the truth that no politician dares utter
: that things are very bad with a world in which, in Grays words, either market forces are directed by the state or the state has been captured by corporate power. -- Terry Eagleton
Unherd
Author J. G. Ballard claimed that
Straw Dogs
challenges assumptions and exposes delusions. With his latest book, Gray continues to do both these things. -- Andy Owen
The Critic
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'One of the most important thinkers alive' The Times Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, Hobbes' cold political vision continues to see through any number of 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 through a
O autorze
John Gray
is a political philosopher, whose books include
Seven Types of Atheism,
Straw Dogs, Black Mass, The Soul of the Marionette
,
The Silence of Animals
and
Feline Philosophy.
He now principally writes for the
New Statesman
.
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