Editorial Granta Books
Fecha de edición agosto 2023 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9781803510088
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Ballard From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. In his radical work of philosophy John Gray sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. Philosophies such as liberalism and Marxism enthrone humankind as a species whose destiny is to transcend natural limits and conquer the Earth.
Even in the present day, despite Darwin's discoveries, nearly all schools of thought take as their starting point the belief that humans are radically different from other animals. 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.
Nació en South Shields, Inglaterra, en 1948. Es considerado uno de los pensadores más importantes de nuestro tiempo. Ha sido profesor de Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad de Oxford y de Pensamiento Europeo en la London School of Economics. En Sexto Piso hemos publicado sus obras El silencio de los animales (2013), La Comisión para la inmortalización (2014), El alma de las marionetas (2015), Misa negra (2017), Siete tipos de ateísmo (2019), Filosofía felina. Los gatos y el sentido de la vida (2021) y Perros de paja (2023).
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