Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans & Other Animals: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals - Hardcover

Gray, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862075123 ISBN 13: 9781862075122

Verlag: Granta Books, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Gray John

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Críticas:

This 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 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. Gray argues that this belief in human difference is an illusion. An exhilarating, disturbing book.

Biografía del autor:

John Gray is Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Granta Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1862075123
• ISBN 13: 9781862075122
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240