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

By John Gray

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2007
ISBN
0415424046, 9780415424042, 9780203933510
LCC
HM1271 .G79 2007
Open Library ID
OL10205880M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1419952 bytes)
Series
Routledge Classics
Edition
1
Pages
321\321
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-11-21 21:13:21

Description

John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists. Gray wrote Enlightenment’s Wake in 1995 – six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and six years before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Turning his back on neoliberalism at exactly the moment that its advocates were in their pomp, trumpeting 'the end of history' and the supposedly unstoppable spread of liberal values across the globe, Gray’s was a lone voice of scepticism. The thinking he criticised here would lead ultimately to the invasion of Iraq. Today, its folly might seem obvious to all, but as this edition of Enlightenment’s Wake shows, John Gray has been trying to warn us for some fifteen years – the rest of us are only now catching up with him.

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