Post-liberalism: Studies in Political ThoughtJohn Gray has become one of our liveliest and most influential political philosophers. This current volume is a sequel to his Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophy. The earlier book ended on a sceptical note, both in respect of what a post-liberal political philosophy might look like, and with respect to the claims of political philosophy itself. |
Contents
Hobbes and the modern state | 3 |
Santayana and the critique of liberalism | 18 |
Hayek as a conservative | 32 |
Oakeshott as a liberal | 40 |
Buchanan on liberty | 47 |
Berlins agonistic liberalism | 64 |
The system of ruins | 73 |
The delusion of glasnost | 85 |
Totalitarianism reform and civil society | 156 |
a fictionalist deconstruction | 196 |
Posttotalitarianism civil society and the limits of the Western | 202 |
Political power social theory and essential contestability | 216 |
An epitaph for liberalism | 238 |
The end of history or of liberalism? | 245 |
The politics of cultural diversity | 253 |
Conservatism individualism and the political thought of | 272 |