Endgames: Questions in Late Modern Political Thought - John Gray
Endgames: Questions in Late Modern Political Thought - John Gray
Title: Endgames: Questions in Late Modern Political Thought
Author: John Gray
Publisher: Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers Ltd
Format: Paperback
Edition: First edition, 1997
ISBN: 9780745618821
Condition: Good second-hand condition. Light shelf wear and surface rubbing to the covers, with minor edge and corner wear. Pages appear clean and intact. Please see photos for the exact copy available.
In Endgames, political philosopher John Gray argues that the great ideological projects inherited from the Enlightenment no longer adequately describe the plural and conflicted realities of the late modern world. He examines the crises of liberalism, the New Right, socialism, green political thought and communitarianism, questioning assumptions about universal progress and a single model of civilisation.
Gray instead argues for greater respect for cultural diversity, ecological limits and the irreducible plurality of human ways of life. The book is a significant contribution to late twentieth-century political philosophy and debates around modernity, postmodernism and the future of liberal political thought.
About the Author: John Gray is a British political philosopher and writer whose work has examined liberalism, political ideology, globalisation, human progress and the limits of Enlightenment thought. He has held academic posts at Oxford and the London School of Economics and is the author of works including False Dawn, Straw Dogs and Black Mass.