9781862075122
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
John Gray
ISBN 13: 9781862075122
Publisher: Granta Books
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
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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 humanist belief in human difference is an illusion and explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned. STRAW DOGS is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that leads the reader to question our deepest held beliefs.
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"If there's a prize for two books by a humanist intellectual that contain the most false generalizations, the most blithe offenses against what we mean by conceptual words--dub it the 'Mad Booker'--it goes to STRAW DOGS...and BLACK MASS, both recently published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, perhaps as a kind of Dada stunt."
Carlin Romano, Chronicle of Higher Education, 01/18/2008
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