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03366aam a2200433 a 4500 001 9565F654851711EEB4A9908744ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231117010120 008 090326s2009 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2009437586 020 $a 1846141915 020 $a 9781846141911 035 $a (OCoLC)298599706 040 $a UKM $b eng $c UKM $d BTCTA $d BWKUK $d BWK $d YDXCP $d CDX $d DLC $d GBVCP $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d DEBBG $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d AU@ $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d NTG $d OCLCA $d UKMGB $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d L2U $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a ukscp 050 00 $a JA71 $b .G71 2009 082 04 $a 824.92 $2 22 100 1 $a Gray, John, $d 1948- 240 10 $a Essays. $k Selections 245 10 $a Gray's anatomy : $b selected writings / $c John Gray. 260 $a London : $b Allen Lane, $c 2009. 300 $a vii, 480 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a Why is the human imagination to blame for the worst crimes of the twentieth century? Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why is contemporary atheism just a hangover from Christian faith? John Gray, author of Straw Dogs and Black Mass, is one of the most original and iconoclastic thinkers of our time. 505 00 $g 30. $t As it is. $g 1. $t Modus vivendi -- $g 2. $t John Stuart Mill and the idea of progress -- $g 3. $t Santayana's alternative -- $g 4. $t Oakeshott as a liberal -- $g 5. $t Notes towards a definition of the political thought of Tlon -- $g 6. $t Isaiah Berlin: the value of decency -- $g 7. $t George Soros and the open society -- $g pt. 2. $t Euthanasia of Conservatism -- $g 8. $t Hayek as a conservative -- $g 9. $t conservative disposition -- $g 10. $t strange death of Tory England -- $g 11. $t Tony Blair, neo-con -- $g 12. $t Margaret Thatcher and the euthanasia of Conservatism -- $g pt. 3. $t From Post-Communism to Deglobalization -- $g 13. $t system of ruins -- $g 14. $t Cultural origins of Soviet Communism -- $g 15. $t Western Marxism: a fictionalist deconstruction -- $g 16. $t end of history, again? -- $g 17. $t What globalization is not -- $g 18. $t world is round -- $g pt. 4. $t Enlightenment and Terror -- $g 19. $t original modernizers -- $g 20. $t Jacobins of Washington -- $g 21. $t Torture: a modest proposal -- $g 22. $t modest defence of George W. Bush -- $g 23. $t Evangelical atheism, secular Christianity -- $g pt. 5. $t After Progress -- $g 24. $t agenda for Green conservatism -- $g 25. $t Joseph Conrad, our contemporary -- $g 26. $t Theodore Powys and the life of contemplation -- $g 27. $t Homo rapiens and mass extinction -- $g 28. $t report to the Academy -- $g 29. $t body disassembled in Damien Hirst -- $g 30. $t As it is. 500 $a Law Library's copy donated by Mark Osiel. $5 IaU-L 650 0 $a Liberalism $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Conservatism $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Political science $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Progress $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Humanity $x Philosophy. 650 7 $a Conservatism $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875589 650 7 $a Liberalism $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00997189 650 7 $a Political science $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069819 650 7 $a Progress $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01078728 776 08 $i Online version: $a Gray, John, 1948- $s Essays. Selections. $t Gray's anatomy. $d London : Allen Lane, 2009 $w (OCoLC)653022915 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023904.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9565F654851711EEB4A9908744ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search