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Straw dogs : thoughts on humans and other animals /John Gray.
by Gray, John, author.
Published by : Granta, (London :) Physical details: 1 online resource, xv, 246 pages. ISBN: 9781862075962 . Year: 2002| Item type | Location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"Straw Dogs is a 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, 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. Even in the present day, despite Darwin's
discoveries, nearly all schools of thought take as their
starting point the belief that humans are radically
different from other animals. John Gray argues that this
humanist belief is an illusion. The aim of Straw Dogs is
to explore how the world and human life look once humanism
has been finally abandoned." "Straw Dogs explores
philosophical issues such as the nature of the self, free
will, morality, progress and the value of truth. Drawing
his inspiration from art, poetry, and the frontiers of
science as well as philosophy itself, John Gray presents a
post-humanist view of the world and of human life. Straw
Dogs is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that
leads the reader to question their deepest beliefs."--
Jacket.
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