ON POSTMODERN LIBERAL CONSERVATISM

In his most recent works, John Gray attempts to achieve two things: to refute the universalist tendencies of modern liberalism and to propos e an alternative in the form of postmodern liberal conservatism. While largely supportive of the first, this paper is critical of the second undertaking, which seems a dubious attempt to synthesize postmodern l iberal anthropology with a conservative conception of the social order .