Investigates the persistence of myth in the modern world, drawing on a wide range of memoirs, poems, fiction, and philosophy to explore how the human imagination is compelled by hardship into worlds beyond real experience.
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An exploration of the failures of reason in human life and the enduring role of myth in science, politics, and morality.
"An exploration of the failures of reason in human life and the enduring role of myth in science, politics, and morality"--
"An exploration of the failures of reason in human life and the enduring role of myth in science, politics, and morality"--
A 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 …
'Straw Dogs' is a radical work of philosophy that challenges our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. John Gray explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned.
'Straw Dogs' is a radical work of philosophy that challenges our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. John Gray explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned.
"A 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…