Includes bibliographical references and index. Law Library's copy donated by Mark Osiel. IaU-L
Contents:
30. As it is. 1. Modus vivendi -- 2. John Stuart Mill and the idea of progress -- 3. Santayana's alternative -- 4. Oakeshott as a liberal -- 5. Notes towards a definition of the political thought of Tlon -- 6. Isaiah Berlin: the value of decency -- 7. George Soros and the open society -- pt. 2. Euthanasia of Conservatism -- 8. Hayek as a conservative -- 9. conservative disposition -- 10. strange death of Tory England -- 11. Tony Blair, neo-con -- 12. Margaret Thatcher and the euthanasia of Conservatism -- pt. 3. From Post-Communism to Deglobalization -- 13. system of ruins -- 14. Cultural origins of Soviet Communism -- 15. Western Marxism: a fictionalist deconstruction -- 16. end of history, again? -- 17. What globalization is not -- 18. world is round -- pt. 4. Enlightenment and Terror -- 19. original modernizers -- 20. Jacobins of Washington -- 21. Torture: a modest proposal -- 22. modest defence of George W. Bush -- 23. Evangelical atheism, secular Christianity -- pt. 5. After Progress -- 24. agenda for Green conservatism -- 25. Joseph Conrad, our contemporary -- 26. Theodore Powys and the life of contemplation -- 27. Homo rapiens and mass extinction -- 28. report to the Academy -- 29. body disassembled in Damien Hirst -- 30. As it is.
Summary:
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.
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