Enlightenment's wake : politics and culture at the close of the modern age.

Now in paperback, Enlightenment's Wake stakes out the elements of John Gray's new position. He argues that all schools of contemporary political thought are variations on the Enlightenment Project - the Westernizing project of a universal civilization - and that this Enlightenment Project has proved self-undermining and is now exhausted. Fresh thought is needed on the dilemmas of the late modern age.

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. x
1 Against the New Liberalism	p. 1
2 Notes Toward a Definition of the Political Thought of Tlön	p. 11
3 Toleration: a Post-Liberal Perspective	p. 18
4 Enlightenment, Illusion and the Fall of the Soviet State	p. 31
5 The Post-Communist Societies in Transition	p. 34
6 Agonistic Liberalism	p. 64
7 The Undoing of Conservatism	p. 87
8 After the New Liberalism	p. 120
9 From Post-Liberalism to Pluralism	p. 131
10 Enlightenment's Wake	p. 144
Notes	p. 185
Index	p. 196

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