The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom

Resumen del libro

In The Soul of the Marionette, 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 - biological, 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.
This is a stimulating and enraging meditation on everything from cybernetics to the fairground marionettes of the title.

Biografía del autor

(South Shields, Inglaterra, 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 ha publicado El silencio de los animales (2013), La Comisión para la inmortalización (2014), El alma de las marionetas (2015), Misa negra (2017) y Siete tipos de ateísmo (2019).