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The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry Into Human Freedom - Softcover

Gray, John

 
9780374536237: The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry Into Human Freedom
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0374536236 ISBN 13: 9780374536237
Verlag: FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

In his brilliantly enjoyable and freewheeling new book, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic, and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces--logical, physical, metaphysical--constrain our every action. Many writers and intellectuals have always understood this, but instead of embracing our condition we battle against it, with everyone from world conquerors to modern scientists dreaming of a "human dominion" almost comically at odds with our true state.

Filled with wonderful examples and drawing on the widest possible reading (from the Gnostics to Philip K. Dick), The Soul of the Marionette is a stimulating and engaging meditation on everything from cybernetics to the fairground marionettes of the title.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Gray is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including The Silence of Animals, The Immortalization Commission, Black Mass, and Straw Dogs. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. He now writes full-time.

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Verlag
FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374536236
ISBN 13 
9780374536237
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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