The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths
Autor John Grayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 feb 2014
'By nature volatile and discordant, the human animal looks to silence for relief from being itself while other creatures enjoy silence as their birthright'
Why do humans seek meaning to life? How do our imaginations leap into worlds so far beyond our actual reality? In this chilling and beautiful sequel toStraw Dogs, John Gray explores how we decorate our existence with countless fictions, twisting and turning to avoid acknowledging that we too are animals. Drawing on an extraordinary array of writers who are mesmerized by extremity, from Ballard to Conrad, Gray makes us re-imagine our place in the world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241953914
ISBN-10: 024195391X
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 024195391X
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
John
Gray
has
been
Professor
of
Politics
at
Oxford
University,
Visiting
Professor
at
Harvard
and
Yale
and
Professor
of
European
Thought
at
the
London
School
of
Economics.
He
now
writes
full
time.
His
books
includeFalse
Dawn:
The
Delusions
of
Global
Capitalism,Straw
Dogs:
Thoughts
on
Humans
and
Other
AnimalsandThe
Immortalization
Commission:
The
Strange
Quest
to
Cheat
Death.
His
selected
writings,Gray's
Anatomy,
was
published
in
2009.
Recenzii
The
Silence
of
Animalsis
a
new
kind
of
book
from
Gray,
a
sort
of
poetic
reverie
on
the
human
state,
on
the
state,
that
is,
of
the
human
animal
...
He
blends
lyricism
with
wisdom,
humour
with
admonition,
nay-saying
with
affirmation,
making
in
the
process
a
marvellous
statement
of
what
it
is
to
be
both
an
animal
and
a
human
in
the
strange,
terrifying
and
exquisite
world
into
which
we
straw
dogs
find
ourselves
thrown
Interesting, original and memorable ...The Silence of Animalsis a beautifully written book, the product of a strongly questioning mind. It is effectively an anthology with detailed commentary, setting out one rich and suggestive episode after another
A secular prophet, sensationally truth-telling, clear-sighted and unperturbed by the illusions under which the rest of us labour ... what's more unexpected is how beautifully the unbearable quality of that desperation is evoked
Full of richness ... a pleasure to read
He takes down utopians of various stripes and then starts wiggling the dentist's drill in the liberal molar ... In Gray's book, it's humanity that is the problem: we need to get over ourselves
For all its dark thrills, Gray's aria of negativity is intended to prepare the reader for a revelation. "Nothingness," he writes, "may be our most precious possession"
Interesting, original and memorable ...The Silence of Animalsis a beautifully written book, the product of a strongly questioning mind. It is effectively an anthology with detailed commentary, setting out one rich and suggestive episode after another
A secular prophet, sensationally truth-telling, clear-sighted and unperturbed by the illusions under which the rest of us labour ... what's more unexpected is how beautifully the unbearable quality of that desperation is evoked
Full of richness ... a pleasure to read
He takes down utopians of various stripes and then starts wiggling the dentist's drill in the liberal molar ... In Gray's book, it's humanity that is the problem: we need to get over ourselves
For all its dark thrills, Gray's aria of negativity is intended to prepare the reader for a revelation. "Nothingness," he writes, "may be our most precious possession"