1st Edition

Enlightenment's Wake Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age

By John Gray Copyright 1995

    Now in paperback, Enlightenment's Wake stakes out the elements of John Gray's new position. He argues that all schools of contemporary political thought are variations on the Enlightenment Project - the Westernizing project of a universal civilization - and that this Enlightenment Project has proved self-undermining and is now exhausted. Fresh thought is needed on the dilemmas of the late modern age.

    Preface Acknowledgements 1.Against the New Liberalism 2.Notes Towards a Definition of the Political Thought of Tlon 3.Toleration: a Postliberal Perspective 4.Western Illusion, Enlightenment and the Fall of the Soviet State 5.The Postcommunist Societies in Transition 6.Agonistic Liberalism 7.The Undoing of Conservatism 8.After the New 10.Enlightenment's Wake Notes Index

    Biography

    John Gray is a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He has been visiting professor at Harvard, Yale and Tulane universities.