Enlightenment's Wake
by John Gray
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.
Social SciencesPolitical ScienceWorld PoliticsBusiness & EconomicsEconomicsHistory of Economics
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERTaylor & Francis
LENGTH320
LANGUAGEENGLISH
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John Nicholas Gray (born 17 April 1948) is an English political philosopher and author with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas. He retired in 2008 as School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gray contributes regularly to *The Guardian*, *The Times Literary Supplement* and the *New Statesman*, where he is the lead book reviewer. He is an atheist. **Source**: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gray_(philosopher)" target="blanck">John Gray</a> on Wikipedia
Enlightenment's Wake
by John Gray
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.
Social SciencesPolitical ScienceWorld PoliticsBusiness & EconomicsEconomicsHistory of EconomicsEconomic Development
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERTaylor & Francis
LENGTH320
LANGUAGEENGLISH
John Nicholas Gray (born 17 April 1948) is an English political philosopher and author with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas. He retired in 2008 as School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gray contributes regularly to *The Guardian*, *The Times Literary Supplement* and the *New Statesman*, where he is the lead book reviewer. He is an atheist. **Source**: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gray_(philosopher)" target="blanck">John Gray</a> on Wikipedia
