Name: straw dogs,thoughts on humans and other animals
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Author: John Gray

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straw dogs,thoughts on humans and other animals

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Gray

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8x14x2 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

0374270937

ISBN13

9780374270933

Synopsis "straw dogs,thoughts on humans and other animals"

The British bestseller Straw Dogs is an exciting, radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. Philosophies such as liberalism and Marxism think of humankind as a species whose destiny is to transcend natural limits and conquer the Earth. John Gray argues that this belief in human difference is a dangerous illusion and explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned. The result is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that leads the reader to question our deepest-held beliefs. Will Self, in the New Statesman, called Straw Dogs his book of the year: I read it once, I read it twice and took notes . . . I thought it that good. Nothing will get you thinking as much as this brilliant book (Sunday Telegraph).

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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