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John Gray, The New Leviathans: Thoughts after Liberalism

Allen Lane 2023, 192 pp., ISBN:978-0241554951

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  1. For instance, Isaiah Berlin ‘Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism’ in The Crooked Timber of Humanity, Henry Hardy ed. (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1990); Ernest Barker Nietzsche and Treitschke: the worship of power in modern Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1914).

  2. Lassman, Peter. “Pluralism and Its Discontents: John Gray’s Counter-Enlightenment.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9, no. 2 (2006), pp. 211–25.

  3. Straw Dogs: Thoughts on humans and animals (London: Granta, 2002).

  4. Suella Braverman, speech in House of Commons, October 18, 2022.

  5. Post Liberalism: studies in political thought (London: Routledge 1993), p. 277; also Beyond the New Right: markets, government, and the common environment (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 152; Straw Dogs, p. 179.

  6. Rorty, Richard. “The Historiography of Philosophy: Four Genres.” In Philosophy in History: Essays on the Historiography of Philosophy, edited by Richard Rorty, J.B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 49–77.

  7. Leviathan chs.1,13.

  8. Leviathan ch.17.

  9. Leviathan ch.18.

  10. Leviathan ch.18 ss. 3–15.

  11. Leviathan ch.14 s. 29.

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Frazer, E. John Gray, The New Leviathans: Thoughts after Liberalism. Soc 60, 783–786 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00912-2

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