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.
John Gray argues that all schools of contemporary political thought are variations on the Enlightenment Project - the Westernizing project of Universalizing Civilization and that new models are now needed to cope with contemporary dilemmas.
