John Gray: The title of my book, Straw Dogs derives from ancient Chinese Daoist text the Laozi in which small dog- like animals made of straw are used in ritual offerings with great reverence and ...

Liberal humanism is a delusion, progress is a myth, and as for the efforts of humans to save the planet, you might as well ask bedbugs to save the apartment they infest. John Gray’s back with… ...

British philosopher and former professor of European Thought, John Gray is the author of nearly a dozen books, but is perhaps best known for 2007’s Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other ...

TEHRAN – John Gray’s “Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals” has been published in Persian. Davate Moaser is the publisher of the book translated into Persian by Saman Moradkhani. The 2002 ...

ALTHOUGH it is billed as the sequel to Straw Dogs, John Gray’s 2002 “break-out” work of philosophy and a trenchant critique of the presuppositions of liberal humanism, The Silence Of Animals ...

John Gray's The Silence of the Animals, like its thematic predecessor Straw Dogs, is a brief, bracing, impatient book, in which High Table material is delivered at saloon bar volume.

We all could benefit from more vitamin N (nature), practiced ethical values and the 'godless mysticism' that comes from nature's spirits ...

He 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, but John Gray now writes full ...

The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry Into Human Freedom, his latest entrée, follows False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism (1998), Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals ...

The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray 240pp, Allen Lane, t £16.99 PLUS £1.35 p & p) Buy now from Telegraph Books (RRP £18.99, ebook £18.99) ...