Straw Dogs

Resumen del libro

Straw Dogs 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 humanist belief in human difference is an illusion and explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned. Straw Dogs is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that leads the reader to question our deepest held beliefs.

Biografía del autor

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).