Gray's Anatomy
The essential thoughts of today’s most provocative philosopher.
Why is the human reason to blame for the worst crimes of the twentieth century?
Why is progress a pernicious myth?
Why is contemporary atheism just a hangover from Christian faith?
John Gray, author of Straw Dogs and Black Mass, is one of the most original and iconoclastic thinkers of our time. In this pugnacious and brilliant collection of essays from across his career, he smashes through humanity’s most cherished beliefs to overturn our view of the world and our place in it.
From Gray’s Anatomy:
“If humans are different from other animals, it is chiefly in being governed by myths, which are not creations of the will but creatures of the imagination.”
“All prevailing philosophies embody the fiction…
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July 7, 2009
JOHN GRAY is Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics. From 1998 to 2007 he was Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. He is the acclaimed author of Black Mass: How Religion Led the World into Crisis, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism and Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings. John Gray es doctor en psicología, y autor de dieciséis bestsellers, incluyendo el famoso Los hombres son de Marte, las mujeres de Venus, uno de los libros más exitosos de los últimos años, traducido a más de cuarenta idiomas y del que en total se han vendido más de cincuenta millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo. Internacionalmente reconocido…
Victory
Joseph Conrad; Edited by Robert Hampson; Introduction by John Gray
The Immortalization Commission
John Gray
Black Mass
John Gray