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The Silence Of Animals
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Author : John Gray
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-02-28
The Silence Of Animals written by John Gray and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-28 with Philosophy categories.
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. Reviews: 'The Silence of Animals is a new kind of book from Gray, a sort of poetic reverie on the human state, on the state, that is, of the human animal ... He blends lyricism with wisdom, humour with admonition, nay-saying with affirmation, making in the process a marvellous statement of what it is to be both an animal and a human in the strange, terrifying and exquisite world into which we straw dogs find ourselves thrown' John Banville, Guardian 'Interesting, original and memorable ... The Silence of Animals is a beautifully written book, the product of a strongly questioning mind. It is effectively an anthology with detailed commentary, setting out one rich and suggestive episode after another' Philip Hensher, Spectator 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.
Straw Dogs
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Author : John Gray
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2015-07-02
Straw Dogs written by John Gray and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-02 with Nature categories.
Straw Dogs is a radical work of philosophy that 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 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. In Straw Dogs, 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.
Feline Philosophy
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Author : John Gray
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2020-10-29
Feline Philosophy written by John Gray and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with Philosophy categories.
'Why can't a human be more like a cat? That is the question threaded through this vivid patchwork of philosophy, fiction, history and memoir ... a wonderful mixture of flippancy and profundity, astringency and tenderness, wit and lament' Jane O'Grady, Daily Telegraph 'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' Montaigne There is no real evidence that humans ever 'domesticated' cats. Rather, it seems that at some point cats saw the potential value to themselves of humans. John Gray's wonderful new book is an attempt to get to grips with the philosophical and moral issues around the uniquely strange relationship between ourselves and these remarkable animals. Feline Philosophy draws on centuries of philosophy, from Montaigne to Schopenhauer, to explore the complex and intimate links that have defined how we react to and behave with this most unlikely 'pet'. At the heart of the book is a sense of gratitude towards cats as perhaps the species that more than any other - in the essential loneliness of our position in the world - gives us a sense of our own animal nature.
The Silence Of Dogs In Cars
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Author : Martin Usborne
language : en
Publisher: Hoxton mini Press
Release Date : 2020
The Silence Of Dogs In Cars written by Martin Usborne and has been published by Hoxton mini Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Photography of dogs categories.
Hauntingly beautiful photographs of dogs in cars As a child, photographer Martin Usborne was once left in a car. This was not for long, but he wondered if anyone would come back. Around the same age he fell in love with dogs - they could not speak, just as he felt he was silent in that car. Thirty years later the two experiences came together in this cinematic and darkly humorous project that looks at the way humans are able to silence the animals they love best. No dogs were harmed in the making of this project.
We The Animals
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Author : Justin Torres
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2012-03-01
We The Animals written by Justin Torres and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Family & Relationships categories.
Three brothers tear their way through childhood - smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn - he's Puerto Rican, she's white. Barely out of childhood themselves, their love is a serious, dangerous thing. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to forge his own way in the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and incredibly powerful.
Straw Dogs
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Author : John Gray
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2016-03-29
Straw Dogs written by John Gray and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-29 with Philosophy categories.
The British bestseller 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 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. Will Self, in the New Statesman, called Straw Dogs his book of the year: "I read it once, I read it twice and took notes . . . I thought it that good." "Nothing will get you thinking as much as this brilliant book" (Sunday Telegraph).
Animals Of Silence
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Author : Idris Parry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Animals Of Silence written by Idris Parry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Soul Of The Marionette
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Author : John Gray
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-03-05
The Soul Of The Marionette written by John Gray and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-05 with Philosophy categories.
TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a magpie of genius' John Banville, Guardian 'Like Isaiah Berlin with a thing for sci-fi' Tibor Fischer, Spectator Everyone thinks they want to be free - or do they? John Gray's thought-stirring new book on freedom draws together insights from Gnosticism, science fiction, ancient sacrifice and the occult to show that freedom is an illusion and that, like fairground puppets, humans dream of escaping the burden of choice altogether.
Silence In Modern Literature And Philosophy
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Author : Thomas Gould
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-07-12
Silence In Modern Literature And Philosophy written by Thomas Gould and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book discusses the elusive centrality of silence in modern literature and philosophy, focusing on the writing and theory of Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes, the prose of Samuel Beckett, and the poetry of Wallace Stevens. It suggests that silence is best understood according to two categories: apophasis and reticence. Apophasis is associated with theology, and relates to a silence of ineffability and transcendence; reticence is associated with phenomenology, and relates to a silence of listenership and speechlessness. In a series of diverse though interrelated readings, the study examines figures of broken silence and silent voice in the prose of Samuel Beckett, the notion of shared silence in Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes, and ways in which the poetry of Wallace Stevens mounts lyrical negotiations with forms of unsayability and speechlessness.
The Haunters Of The Silences A Book Of Animal Life
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Author : Charles G. D. Sir Roberts
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-15
The Haunters Of The Silences A Book Of Animal Life written by Charles G. D. Sir Roberts and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Fiction categories.
"The Haunters of the Silences" is a collection of short stories about diverse wild animals. The stories depict the natural scenery that these 'haunters of the silence' are found in and the epic struggle of life as they face off in the duels of nature. From the white polar bears of the Arctic north, to the Great sharks of the Caribbean Sea, to the mole shrews of the woodlands, the book offers a phenomenal array of nature at its best. Though the stories are fictional, author Charles D. Roberts boasts that some of the stories are inspired by his own observations in his past nature excursions.