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, the Western tradition has been based on the belief that humans are radically different from other animals. Taking inspiration from art, poetry, the frontiers of science...
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, the Western tradition has been based on the belief that humans are radically different from other animals. Taking inspiration from art, poetry, the frontiers of science, and philosophy itself, John Gray argues that the belief in human difference is an illusion and offers instead a post humanist view of the world. Straw Dogs is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing, book that explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned.
作者简介
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John Gray is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including The Silence of Animals, The Immortalization Commission, Black Mass, and Straw Dogs. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. He now writ...
John Gray is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including The Silence of Animals, The Immortalization Commission, Black Mass, and Straw Dogs. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. He now writes full-time.
Only if you don't know what flowers, stones and riversare
Can you talk about their feelings.
To talk about the soul of flowers, stones, and rivers,
Is to talk about yourself, about your delusions.
Tha...Only if you don't know what flowers, stones and riversare
Can you talk about their feelings.
To talk about the soul of flowers, stones, and rivers,
Is to talk about yourself, about your delusions.
Thank god stones are just stones,
And rivers just rivers,
And flowers just flowers.
seekers after inhuman truth there could be no worse nightmares(展开)
Other animals do not need a purpose in life. A contradiction to itself, the human animal cannot do without one. Can we not think of the aim of life as being simply to see?
不是严密论证类型的书，但是时不时有一些句子和想法让你眼前一亮。这本书是朋友推荐给我的，因为我总是纠结于make progress就是无论做什么，我都想要有进步有结果， 正如这本书里所说“the best fisherman is not the one who catches the most fish, but the one who enjoys fishing the most”。恰逢昨天跟...不是严密论证类型的书，但是时不时有一些句子和想法让你眼前一亮。这本书是朋友推荐给我的，因为我总是纠结于make progress就是无论做什么，我都想要有进步有结果， 正如这本书里所说“the best fisherman is not the one who catches the most fish, but the one who enjoys fishing the most”。恰逢昨天跟心理咨询师聊完，我跟她说最近我教学生分数一直提不上去，导致我觉得自己很失败，她问我那你觉得成功的老师是什么，昨天我的回答是帮学生实现他们的目标分数，但是读完这本书里的这句话之后，或许答案于我而言是enjoy teaching，提高分数是学生自己的事了。(展开)
No jargons, no fancy philosophical terms or grand ideological analysis, just a crystal-clear book on the brief history of thought - debunking the myth penetrated ideologies since Marxism and liberalis...No jargons, no fancy philosophical terms or grand ideological analysis, just a crystal-clear book on the brief history of thought - debunking the myth penetrated ideologies since Marxism and liberalism - humanism sitting at the centre of everything. That said, it’s nowhere near a fair or precise read… ‘the aim of life as being simply to see’… hmmm(展开)
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux2007版
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新华出版社2017版
0 有用 rachel 2018-06-20 20:52:17
Only if you don't know what flowers, stones and riversare Can you talk about their feelings. To talk about the soul of flowers, stones, and rivers, Is to talk about yourself, about your delusions. Tha... Only if you don't know what flowers, stones and riversare Can you talk about their feelings. To talk about the soul of flowers, stones, and rivers, Is to talk about yourself, about your delusions. Thank god stones are just stones, And rivers just rivers, And flowers just flowers. seekers after inhuman truth there could be no worse nightmares (展开)
0 有用 OO-san 2022-01-20 19:18:46
Other animals do not need a purpose in life. A contradiction to itself, the human animal cannot do without one. Can we not think of the aim of life as being simply to see?
0 有用 Danphy 2024-07-03 04:36:20 英国
不是严密论证类型的书，但是时不时有一些句子和想法让你眼前一亮。这本书是朋友推荐给我的，因为我总是纠结于make progress就是无论做什么，我都想要有进步有结果， 正如这本书里所说“the best fisherman is not the one who catches the most fish, but the one who enjoys fishing the most”。恰逢昨天跟... 不是严密论证类型的书，但是时不时有一些句子和想法让你眼前一亮。这本书是朋友推荐给我的，因为我总是纠结于make progress就是无论做什么，我都想要有进步有结果， 正如这本书里所说“the best fisherman is not the one who catches the most fish, but the one who enjoys fishing the most”。恰逢昨天跟心理咨询师聊完，我跟她说最近我教学生分数一直提不上去，导致我觉得自己很失败，她问我那你觉得成功的老师是什么，昨天我的回答是帮学生实现他们的目标分数，但是读完这本书里的这句话之后，或许答案于我而言是enjoy teaching，提高分数是学生自己的事了。 (展开)
0 有用 30岁了还没秃顶 2022-07-20 17:31:30
No jargons, no fancy philosophical terms or grand ideological analysis, just a crystal-clear book on the brief history of thought - debunking the myth penetrated ideologies since Marxism and liberalis... No jargons, no fancy philosophical terms or grand ideological analysis, just a crystal-clear book on the brief history of thought - debunking the myth penetrated ideologies since Marxism and liberalism - humanism sitting at the centre of everything. That said, it’s nowhere near a fair or precise read… ‘the aim of life as being simply to see’… hmmm (展开)