Straw Dogs
Subtitle: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: October 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780374270933
Subjects: Political Science; Philosophy; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Animal Rights; Movements - Humanism; Political Science / General; General; Humanism
Description: The British bestseller 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 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. 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 abandoned. The result is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that leads the reader to question our deepest-held beliefs.