{"product_id":"the-new-leviathans-thoughts-after-liberalism-paperback","title":"The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Gray\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold, provocative reckoning with our current political delusions and dysfunctions. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's \u003ci\u003eLeviathan \u003c\/i\u003ehas 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his wonderfully stimulating book\u003ci\u003e The New Leviathans\u003c\/i\u003e, John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors, and disappointments. 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 have flourished, and yet our liberal certainties treat them as aberrations that will somehow dissolve. Hobbes would not be so confident. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFilled with fascinating and challenging observations, \u003ci\u003eThe New Leviathans\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Gray \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of many critically acclaimed books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Silence of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Immortalization Commission\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Black Mass\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eStraw Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFeline Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e. A regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. He now writes full-ti\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 8.26 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758577352992,"sku":"9781250338310","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d8835841b229a76115491a9a6bdf50cd_59642b3c-8094-4efc-b234-e4126d949eab.webp?v=1780129639","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-new-leviathans-thoughts-after-liberalism-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}