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REVIEWS: Straw Dogs
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Nothing will get you thinking as much as Straw Dogs -
Sunday Telegraph. The British bestseller 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.
Characters: 161. Amazon rating: 3 1/2 stars. Genre: Non-Fiction.
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