The new LeviathansEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, Hobbes' cold political vision continues to see through any number of political and ethical vanities. In his stimulating book 'The New Leviathans', John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors and disappointments through a new reading

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he traces how six countries have survived defining catastrophes - from the forced opening of Japan to the Soviet invasion of Finland to Chile's brutal Pinochet regime - through selective change

What he finds there changes everything

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From Abraham Lincoln and Emmeline Pankhurst through to Obama and Malala