The New Leviathans Thoughts After Liberalism
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by John Gray, published by Picador on November 5, 2024, is a thought-provoking exploration of contemporary political issues. This 192-page book delves into the complexities and contradictions of the 2020s, drawing on the enduring insights of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan. Gray examines the political delusions and dysfunctions that have emerged since the collapse of the USSR, challenging the prevailing liberal narratives that dismiss current crises as mere aberrations.
In The New Leviathans, readers will encounter a critical analysis of historical and modern political ideologies, reflecting on the moral challenges and disappointments faced by society. Gray’s observations prompt a reconsideration of human instincts and the potential for a more realistic ethical framework. This edition, written in English, invites readers to engage with the philosophical underpinnings of political thought and the implications for our understanding of governance and human behavior.
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A bold, provocative reckoning with our current political delusions and dysfunctions.
Ever 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.
In his wonderfully stimulating book The New Leviathans, 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.
Filled with fascinating and challenging observations, The New Leviathans 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?
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