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 ...

JOHN GRAY is Emeritus Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. He is a regular contributor to the Guardian and the Times Literary ...

John Gray, . . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $15 (245pp) ISBN 978-0-374-27093-3 ... Humans think they are “free, conscious beings, when in truth they are deluded ...

106 quotes from Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals: 'Most people today think they belong to a species that can be master of its destiny. Th...

Nov 24, 2023 · Here's my favorite quotes from the book: “The I is a thing of the moment, and yet our lives are ruled by it. We cannot rid ourselves of this ...

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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 ...

Gray, John ... Offering a post-humanistic perspective on the world, the author of False Dawn presents a radical new work of philosophy that eliminates the idea ...

Gray writes off both the Enlightenment and its progeny humanism as a blind alley. He follows Schopenhauer in his view that humanism is just Christianity with ...