Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Straw Dogs 'Straw Dogs' is a radical work of philosophy that challenges our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. John Gray explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned.
Full description- Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
- Published: 01 May 2004
- Format: Paperback 246 pages
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- Categories: Animals & Society | Philosophy | History Of Western Philosophy | Western Philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, C 500 To C 1600
- ISBN 13: 9781862075962 ISBN 10: 1862075964
- Sales rank: 10,235
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Full description for Straw Dogs
A 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. 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 in human difference is an illusion and explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned.
