The New Leviathans, John Gray

The New LeviathansJohn Gray

Art Nr.: 0241554950

ISBN 13: 9780241554951

Subtitle: Thoughts After Liberalism

Release year: 2023

Published by: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)

Cover: Buch

Cover Format: 220x142x23 mm

Pages: 178

Weight: 302 g

Language: Englisch

Author: John Gray

Description 'One of the most important thinkers alive' The Times'Britain's best philosopher' The TelegraphEver 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 new reading of Hobbes' classic work. 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 flourished, and yet still our liberal certainties treat them as aberrations which will somehow dissolve away. Hobbes would not be so confident. Filled with fascinating and challenging perceptions, 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 all Information of Author 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. Kurzbeschreibung Titel: The New Leviathans, Untertitel: Thoughts After Liberalism, Einband: Buch, Autor: John Gray, Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK), Sprache: Englisch, Seiten: 178, Maße: 220x142x23 mm, Gewicht: 302 g, Verkäufer: Wegmann1855, Schlagworte: Englische Bücher / Geisteswissenschaften / Philosophie Ethik Ethos Philosophie / Ethik Philosophie / Gesellschaft, Politik, Staat Philosophie / Philosophiegeschichte Geistesgeschichte PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern greek philosophy feline philosophy seven types of atheism straw dogs gray?s anatomy the soul of the marionette the silence of animals thomas hobbes leviathan marcus aurelius meditations the right to sex political philosophy machiavelli the prince government human nature civil war social contract rousseau liberalism power richard dawkins jordan peterson fukuyama communism putin china why empires fall ethics of life sociobiology prey and prejudice john bew realpolitik humanism genealogy of morals virtue and valor druids folly Powered by INFORIUS