ABSTRACT
This contextualising of globalisation is continued by relating it to the Enlightenment, which was referred to in Chapter 1. John Gray, as we have seen, criticises the legacies of the Enlightenment, in particular the conviction that humankind is able to employ rationality and science to achieve ever improved material well-being, as well as what he sees as the political project of globalisation. Gray condemns this as a continuation of the false claims or myths of the Enlightenment tradition. His argument is summarised in the second part of this chapter.
