Name: Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
SKU: 53705148
Price: 25.14 EUR
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Author: John Gray
ISBN: 9781250800251

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Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Gray

Publisher

Picador

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8x13.5x1.3 cm

Weight

0.11 kg.

ISBN13

9781250800251

Synopsis "Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life "

The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats--and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves. The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can learn more from cats--the animal that has most captured our imagination--than from the great thinkers of the world. In Feline Philosophy, the philosopher John Gray discovers in cats a way of living that is unburdened by anxiety and self-consciousness, showing how they embody answers to the big questions of love and attachment, mortality, morality, and the Self: Montaigne's house cat, whose un-examined life may have been the one worth living; Meo, the Vietnam War survivor with an unshakable capacity for "fearless joy"; and Colette's Saha, the feline heroine of her subversive short story "The Cat", a parable about the pitfalls of human jealousy. Exploring the nature of cats, and what we can learn from it, Gray offers a profound, thought-provoking meditation on the follies of human exceptionalism and our fundamentally vulnerable and lonely condition. He charts a path toward a life without illusions and delusions, revealing how we can endure both crisis and transformation, and adapt to a changed scene, as cats have always done.

John Gray

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John Gray is a distinguished philosopher, writer, and British politician. He is a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. He has worked at various universities, including Yale and Oxford.
In the 1980s, he was a significant advocate for the New Right and in the 90s, for New Labour. Now Gray believes that the political spectrum divided between right and left is no longer viable. He is a pessimist about humanity.
He regularly contributes to The Guardian, New Statesman, and The Times Literary Supplement.

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