ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|10 pages

Against the new liberalism

chapter 3|12 pages

Toleration: a post-liberal perspective

chapter 5|30 pages

The post-communist societies in transition

chapter 6|24 pages

Agnostic liberalism

chapter 7|32 pages

The undoing of conservatism

chapter 8|12 pages

After the new liberalism

chapter 9|12 pages

From post-liberalism to pluralism

chapter 10|42 pages

Enlightenment’s wake