Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs
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Publisher : Granta Books
Total Pages : 149
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ISBN-10 : 9781783782611
ISBN-13 : 1783782617
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Download or read book Straw Dogs written by John Gray and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straw Dogs is a radical work of philosophy that 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 enthrone 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. In Straw Dogs, 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.


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