Straw Dogs
Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
$41.35
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
16 October 2007
Summary
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 an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374270933 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0374270937 |
| Author: | John Gray |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 16 October 2007 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 140mm x 208mm |
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Critics Review
“Nothing will get you thinking as much as this brilliant book.” –George Walden, The Sunday Telegraph
“There is unlikely to be a more provocative or more compelling book published this year than Straw Dogs … Gray is one of the most consistently interesting and unpredictable thinkers in Britain.” –Jason Cowley, The Observer (London)
“One of the most important books published this year, and will probably prove to be one of the most important this century. An attempt to suggest new ways of thinking and feeling … nobody can hope to understand the times in which we live unless they have read Straw Dogs.” –Sue Corrigan, Mail on Sunday
“At once daunting and enthralling, Gray’s remarkable new book shows us what it would be like to live without the distraction of consolations.” –Adam Phillips
“This powerful and brilliant book is an essential guide to the new Millennium. Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions.” –J.G. Ballard
John Gray
A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, John Gray is the author of Black Mass, among other books. He is currently a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics.
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