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- Book Title
- Endgames : Questions in Late Modern Political Thought
- Publication Name
- Endgames
- Title
- Endgames
- Subtitle
- Questions in Late Modern Political Thought
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780745618821
- ISBN
- 9780745618821
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Genre
- History, Philosophy, Political Science
- Topic
- Modern / 18th Century, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, History & Theory, General, History & Surveys / Modern, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
- Release Date
- 20/03/1997
- Release Year
- 1997
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 11 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Number of Pages
- 204 Pages
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In this book John Gray argues that we live in a time of endings for the ideologies that governed the modern period. The Enlightenment projects of universal emancipation animates all the political doctrines and movements that are central in contemporary western societies. Yet it does not reflect the reality of the plural world in which we live. The western cultural hegemony which the Enlightenment embodied is coming to a close. Western liberal societies are not precursors of a universal civilization, but only one form of life among many in the late modern world. Our inherited stock of political ideas no longer tracks that world. The crisis of New Right thought is as profound as that of the Left. Green theorists and communitarian thinkers have not understood the deep diversity and intractable conflicts of contemporary societies. And postmodernists, whose thought is ruled by the dated utopias of the modern period, do not engage with the real conditions of the world's emerging postmodern societies. Late modern thought occurs in an interregnum between modern projects that are no longer credible and postmodern realities that many find intolerable. John Gray suggests that some Enlightenment hopes of progress must be extinguished if we are to learn to respect cultural diversity and accept ecological limits. Respect for the Earth and for other species and cultures means abandoning the utopian and arcadian projects that haunt modern thought. We should aim to moderate the impact of human activity on the Earth while alleviating the unavoidable evils of human life. Yet the hubris which treats the Earth as an instrument of human purposes, and which regards other cultures as approximations to a universal civilization, embodies ancient and powerful traditions. John Gray's aim is to question these traditions and thereby to prepare our thinking for a time of beginnings.
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Publisher
Polity Press
ISBN-10
0745618820
ISBN-13
9780745618821
eBay Product ID (ePID)
464248
Product Key Features
Book Title
Endgames : Questions in Late Modern Political Thought
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Modern / 18th Century, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, History & Theory, General, History & Surveys / Modern, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publication Year
1997
Genre
History, Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
204 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
11 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ja83.G684 1997
Reviews
"Since Gray is one of the most intelligent among commentators on political affairs, his new essays are endlessly stimulating ... one emerges with sharpened wits." Kenneth Minogue, New Statesman and Society"He is the most penetrating contemporary chronicler of the death throes of the Hayekian New right, whose company he once improbably kept. He is also the most subtle and original British exponent of the pluralistic, post-liberal, post-Croslandite communitarianism which must be a major ingredient in any remotely satisfactory governing philosophy for our time ... John Gray has the root of the matter in him. If the next government wants to avoid the pitfalls of opportunism, it might start by devoting a Chequers weekend to a seminar on Endgames." David Marquand, The Times Literary Supplement"Lucid, subtle and astute." Radical Philosophy, "Since Gray is one of the most intelligent among commentators on political affairs, his new essays are endlessly stimulating ... one emerges with sharpened wits." Kenneth Minogue, New Statesman and Society "He is the most penetrating contemporary chronicler of the death throes of the Hayekian New right, whose company he once improbably kept. He is also the most subtle and original British exponent of the pluralistic, post-liberal, post-Croslandite communitarianism which must be a major ingredient in any remotely satisfactory governing philosophy for our time ... John Gray has the root of the matter in him. If the next government wants to avoid the pitfalls of opportunism, it might start by devoting a Chequers weekend to a seminar on Endgames." David Marquand, The Times Literary Supplement "Lucid, subtle and astute." Radical Philosophy
Table of Content
Foreword. 1. The strange death of Tory England. 2. After social democracy. 3. Rawls's anti-political liberalism. 4. Ironies of liberal postmodernity. 5. Socialism with a professorial face. 6. Green theory undone'. 7. What community is not. 8. Berlin, Oakeshott and Enlightenment. 9. The Tory endgame. 10. Beginnings. Notes. References. Index.
Copyright Date
1997
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
96-053216
Dewey Decimal
320/.011
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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