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Anglický filozof a politolog John Gray pokračuje ve vytříbeném, přitom však velmi břitkém, až nelítostném odhalování klamné iluze lidstva, která se nazývá víra v pokrok. Eseje původně vznikaly pro londýnský týdeník New Statesman, lze je tedy považovat i za svého druhu komentáře ke světovému dění na prahu 21. století. Gray, u nás známý zejména knihami Slamění psi či Dvě tváře liberalismu, vidí lidskou historii nikoli jako vzestupnou spirálu vedoucí do vysněného lepšího světa, ale jako nekonečný cyklus, v němž na sebe vzájemně působí proměnlivé znalosti a neměnné lidské potřeby. Jediné, čeho můžeme dosáhnout, je snažit se zkrotit drsnější instinkty člověka-divocha a drobnou prací omezovat síly, které hrozí, že nás zničí.

Straw Dogs is a 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 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. 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. John Gray argues that this humanist belief is an illusion. The aim of Straw Dogs is to explore how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned.Straw Dogs explores philosophical issues such as the nature of the self, free will, morality, progress and the value of truth. Drawing his inspiration from art, poetry, and the frontiers of science as well as philosophy itself, John Gray presents a post-humanist view of the world and of human life. Straw Dogs is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that leads the reader to question their deepest beliefs.

Henry Wilt has been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, carpenters, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his wife Eva is given to unpredictable fits of enthusiasm - for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline.

Far from being a throwback to medieval times, the fundamentalism of Al Qaeda is an entirely modern response to the world. This is the controversial view argued in John Gray's take on politics and globalization since September 11.

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