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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Gray, John, 1948-     Subjects     Gray, John, 1948- -- Political and social views.     World politics -- 1989-     Post-communism -- Philosophical aspects.     Liberalism.     Essays -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gray, John, 1948-       by title:      The new Leviathans :...       by call number:      320.01 G779n     Search the Web     Gray, John, 1948-     Gray, John, 1948- -- Political and social views.     World politics -- 1989-     Post-communism -- Philosophical aspects.     Liberalism.     Essays -- 21st century.       MARC Display

The new Leviathans : thoughts after liberalism / John Gray. by Gray, John, 1948- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Call #: 320.01 G779n Subjects Gray, John, 1948- -- Political and social views.   World politics -- 1989-   Post-communism -- Philosophical aspects.   Liberalism.   Essays -- 21st century. ISBN:  9780374609733 (hc.) Edition:  1st American ed. Description:  181 p. ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's 'Leviathan' has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. 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. 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. Since then, so many terrible events have occurred and so many poisonous ideas have flourished, and yet our liberal certainties treat them as aberrations that will somehow dissolve. Hobbes would not be so confident. Filled with fascinating and challenging observations, 'The New Leviathans' is a powerful meditation on historical and current folly. As a species we always seem to be struggling to face the reality of base and delusive human instincts. Might a more self-aware, realistic, and disabused ethics help us?"--From publisher. John Gray is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including 'The Silence of Animals,' 'The Immortalization Commission,' 'Black Mass,' 'Straw Dogs,' and 'Feline Philosophy.' A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 320.01 G779n Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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