The Silence of Animals

Titel: The Silence of Animals

Schrijver: John Gray

Bindingswijze: Hardcover

EAN: 9781846144509

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Beschrijving:
This title is the powerful beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw Dogs . John Gray draws on an extraordinary array of memoirs, poems, fiction and philosophy to make us re-imagine our place in the world. Writers as varied as Ballard, Borges, Freud and Conrad are mesmerised by forms of human extremity - experiences on the outer edge of the possible, or which tip into fantasy and myth. What happens to us when we starve, when we fight, when we are imprisoned? And how do our imaginations leap into worlds way beyond our real experience? The Silence of Animals is consistently fascinating, filled with unforgettable images and a delight in the conundrum of our existence - an existence which we decorate with countless myths and ideas, where we twist and turn to avoid acknowledging that we too are animals, separated from the others perhaps only by our self-conceit. In the Babel we have created for ourselves, it is the silence of animals that both reproaches and bewitches us. Praise for Straw Dogs : My book of the year was Straw Dogs ...a devastating critique of liberal humanism, and all of it set out in easy-to-digest (although hard-to-swallow) apercus . (Will Self, New Statesman ). There is unlikely to be a more provocative or more compelling book published this year than Straw Dogs ...Gray is one of the most consistently interesting and unpredictable thinkers in Britain . ( Observer ). About the author: 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.