Two Faces of Liberalism
by John Gray
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In Two Faces of Liberalism, John Gray argues that liberalthought has always contained two incompatible philosophies. In one,liberalism is a theory of a universal rational consensus, whichenables the achievement of the best way of life for all humankind.In the other, liberalism is the project of seeking terms ofpeaceful coexistence between different regimes and ways of life. John Gray argues that the liberalism of rational consensus isanachronistic in a time when most late modern societies show more containseveral ways of life, with many people belonging to more than one.The future of liberalism lies with a project of modusvivendi, first outlined in the writings of Thomas Hobbes. Inthe course of his argument, Gray presents a new interpretation ofliberal toleration and argues that value-pluralism in ethics cansupport a revised view of universal human rights. This accessible book will be of great interest to students andscholars of political thought, moral and political philosophy,social and critical theory and cultural studies. show lessTags
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John Gray is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including Seven Types of Atheism, The Silence of Animals, The Immortalization Commission, Black Mass, and Straw Dogs. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and a professor of European show more thought at the London School of Economics. He now writes full-time. show less
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- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, Philosophy, General Nonfiction, History
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- 320.51 — Society, Government, and Culture Political science Types of Government Political ideologies Liberalism
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- JC574 .G73 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Purpose, functions, and relations of the state
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