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# Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age (Routledge Classics)

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- **What is this?** Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age (Routledge Classics) by john gray
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The view from nowhere
  

*by O***K on Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2015*

Enlightenment's Wake delivers a superb account of the fragile philosophical underpinnings of the modern and post-modern world. All the important bases are touched: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Burke, Herder, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, Rawls, Berlin, Rorty , Heidegger...Yes, there are a lot of philosophical bricks in our world. Gray believes that these  bricks are are not solid and, in fact, have been crumbling for quite some time. He supports his views with keen and wide-ranging analysis that not only considers our minds and thoughts but also what has actually gone on out there in the "real world" since Kant awoke from his metaphysical slumber. While his writing style is not as felicitous as Berlin's ( one of the few savants that Gray avidly admires ) he casts a wider net into anthropology, sociology and the modern western mecca of multiculturalism. Unlike most of the twentieth century savants consigned to continental Europe Gray makes his point with aporias, differences, slippages, etc. that encumber much modern thought. The negative in "Wake" is that as a collection of mostly previously published essays, there is a bit of inevitable repetition. All in all a masterful snapshot of the view from nowhere. A must read if you want to unclog your mind from received wisdoms.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Enlightment Chickens Have Come Home to Roost
  

*by C***H on Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2013*

Gray has superbly detailed the ghastly long tern effects of enlightenment thinking that have carried along Western Civilization for hundreds of years, a path that has led us to what is promising to be the ultimate disaster in the crash of industrial economies and out of control central bankers blinded by their greed and devoid of what was once thought of as ethics.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Gray writes with panache and an acid pen when it ...
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2016*

Gray writes with panache and an acid pen when it suits him. His diagnosis of smugness in the academy is superb.

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