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John Gray - Enlightenment´s Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age - 9780415424042 - V9780415424042
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Enlightenment´s Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age

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Description for Enlightenment´s Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age Paperback. Turning his back on neoliberalism at 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. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 352.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Routledge Classics
Condition
New
Weight
348g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415424042
SKU
V9780415424042
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About John Gray
John Gray is one of the most internationally renowned and widely read political theorists writing today. The best-selling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, he is currently Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics.

Reviews for Enlightenment´s Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age
'Gray is one of our best social and political theorists ... This powerful and radical work opens as many doors as it closes.' - New Statesman 'Gray is a clever and energetic political theorist in the analytical mode. He is also dauntingly well-read and up-to-date.' - Guardian 'Gray is one of our best social and political theorists... This ... Read more

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