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GRAY, JOHN

 
9780374270933: Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
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ISBN 10: 0374270937 ISBN 13: 9780374270933
Editorial: FSG Adult, 2007

Sinopsis

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).

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Acerca del autor

John Gray is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including The Silence of Animals, The Immortalization Commission, Black Mass, and Straw Dogs. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. He now writes full-time.

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Editorial
FSG Adult
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0374270937
ISBN 13 
9780374270933
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Número de páginas
264
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9781862075962: Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

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ISBN 10:  1862075964 ISBN 13:  9781862075962
Editorial: Granta Books, 2003
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