The Silence of Animals

On Progress and Other Modern Myths

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John Gray

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Drawing on an extraordinary array of writers who are mesmerized by extremity, from Ballard to Conrad, Gray makes us re-imagine our place in the world. The powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw Dogs 'By nature volatile and discordant, the human animal looks to silence for relief from being itself while other creatures enjoy silence as their birthright' Why do humans seek meaning to life? How do our imaginations leap into worlds so far beyond our actual reality? In this chilling and beautiful sequel to Straw Dogs, John Gray explores how we decorate our existence with countless fictions, twisting and turning to avoid acknowledging that we too are animals. Drawing on an extraordinary array of writers who are mesmerized by extremity, from Ballard to Conrad, Gray makes us re-imagine our place in the world.

Author Biography:

John Gray has been Professor of Politics at Oxford University, Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale and Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. He now writes full time. His books include False Dawn- The Delusions of Global Capitalism, Straw Dogs- Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals and The Immortalization Commission- The Strange Quest to Cheat Death. His selected writings, Gray's Anatomy, was published in 2009.

Release date Australia

February 27th, 2014

Author

John Gray

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

240

Dimensions

129x198x14

ISBN-13

9780241953914

Product ID

21644697

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