On Postmodern Liberal Conservatism

In: Critical review: an interdisciplinary journal of politics and society, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 1-22

Abstract

Review recent attempts by John Gray (1989, 1993) to: (1) refute the universalist tendencies of modern liberalism, & (2) propose an alternative in the form of postmodern liberal conservatism. While largely supportive of the first, the second undertaking is critiqued as a dubious attempt to synthesize postmodern liberal anthropology with a conservative conception of the social order. Adapted from the source document.