Enlightenment's Wake by John Gray
Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age
A brisk critique of modern political and cultural faith in progress, arguing that Enlightenment-derived faith in reason and perfectibility has spawned secular utopian ideologies that repeat religious hubris; it traces how liberalism, socialism and technocratic reforms inherit millenarian impulses, warns against grand narratives and social engineering, and urges a more modest, pluralistic politics that accepts moral limits, contingency, and the unintended consequences of ambitious designs for human improvement.
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- 1995
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