Beyond the New Right: Markets, Government and the Common Environment

by John Gray

John Gray is now established as one of the UK's leading political thinkers. For over a decade he has been asssociated with the ideas and think-tanks of the New Right. In this book he presents both a criticism of the ideological excesses of New Right ideology and a radical critique of the New Right itself, developed from the standpoint of traditional conservatism.
All the major thinkers and themes of the New Right are examined, together with many major issues of current public policy - such as the growth of the underclass, the future of the welfare state and the role of government in education and culture. The author also argues that there are deep affinities between conservative ideology and Green thought. He advances radical proposals for the preservation and renewal of common life for an age in which the ideals of modernism, including continuous economic growth, are decreasingly viable. He expresses his conviction that conservative philosophy will find its future in dissociating itelf from the neo-liberalism that has lately dominated policy, and returning to the task of redefining traditional values.

Genres: Philosophy, Politics

208 pages, Hardcover

First published July 28, 1993

About the author

John Nicholas Gray is a English political philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas. He retired in 2008 as School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gray contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, where he is the lead book reviewer.

Reviews

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 4 out of 5]

a highly unusual book

i bought it when a friend had a stack of coffeetable magazines, and i flipped through The Economist, and saw a book review of it, and it was unusual.. and I thought i might buy it

It's not as polished as John Kenneth Galbraith or Paul Samuelson, but was one of the first books i remember browsing that criticized neo-liberal policies...

[Brendan]

I read some of this but not all

[Teddee]

read through p100