Britains best philosopher he knocks it out of the park with a book that details the unravelling of the Western order Telegraph Books of the YearEver 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 wonderfully 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 of Hobbes classic work. The collapse of the USSR ushered in an era of nearapoplectic triumphalism in the West a genuine belief that a rational liberal wellmanaged future now awaited humankind and that tyranny nationalism and unreason lay in the past.