The silence of animals : on progress and other modern myths / John Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, John, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Animal nature.

Human beings.

Humanism.

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

227 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

Summary:

"An exploration of the failures of reason in human life and the enduring role of myth in science, politics, and morality"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 An Old Chaos 1

The call of progress

Frozen horses and deserts of brick

Invisible ink, flayed skin and white ants

The emperor's tomb

Two times two equals five

What a tyrant can do for you

Ichthyophils and liberals -paper clothes, grand pianos and a milliard blades of grass

The alchemists of finance

Humanism and flying saucers

2 Beyond the Last Thought 83

Freud's cigars and the long way round to Nirvana

From illusions to fictions

The supreme fiction -happiness, a fiction you can do without

Jung's Aryan unconscious, or what myths are not

Myths of the near future

Tlön and history without two afternoons

Words and cinders

Godless mysticism

3 Another Sunlight 147

The light-drenched prism

The silence of animals

A visit to the British Museum

Infinite cities

A churchyard cough and a green coat

A vanishing act

The stranger in the wings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780374229177

0374229171

OCLC:

812068745

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