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Gray, John, 1948- author.
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Political realism.
Nation-state.
World politics -- 1989-
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The new Leviathans :...
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The new Leviathans : thoughts after liberalism / John Gray.
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Gray, John, 1948- author.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Subjects
Political realism.
Nation-state.
World politics -- 1989-
ISBN:
9780374609733 (hardcover) :
037460973X (hardcover)
Description:
181 pages ; 22 cm
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First American edition.
Contents:
The return of Leviathan -- Artificial states of nature -- Mortal gods.
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Since its publication in 1651 Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, his cold political vision continues to see through any number of human political and ethical vanities. The collapse of the USSR ushered in an era of near apoplectic triumphalism in the 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 have flourished, and yet our liberal certainties treat them as aberrations that will somehow dissolve. Hobbes would not be so confident. Gray's book is a 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? -- adapted from jacket
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