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Straw Dogs

Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

By John Gray

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| Paperback | 9781862075962

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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, the Western tradition has been based on the belief that humans are radically different fContinue

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, the Western tradition has been based on the belief that humans are radically different from other animals. Taking inspiration from art, poetry, the frontiers of science, and philosophy itself, John Gray argues that the belief in human difference is an illusion and offers instead a post humanist view of the world. Straw Dogs is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing, book that explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned.

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  • Humanity and other animals

    Straw Dogs by John Gray 240pp, Granta Books, £12.99 John Gray's political vision has been steadily darkening. Once a swashbuckling free-marketeer, he has, in his recent studies, become increasingly despondent about the state of the world. With the cr ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The importance of being wrong

    Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray Granta, £8.99 Here, as a change from my usual practice, is an anti-recommendation. I make it in the teeth of distinguished opposition. For Straw Dogs, when in hardback, was a "book of the ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 246 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 1862075964
  • ISBN-13: 9781862075962
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • Pub date: May 01, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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