'One of the most important thinkers alive' The Times Ever 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?
General
Imprint: |
Allen Lane
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
John Gray
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Dimensions: |
222 x 138 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
192 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-241-55495-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-241-55495-0 |
Barcode: |
9780241554951 |
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