• 10.05.2024.
• Zagreb, HR

New title: „Straw dogs. Thoughts on humans and other animals“

After Seven Types of Atheism, another book by John Gray, Straw dogs. Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, translated by Stribor Kikere is finally published. As from today, you can find it in libraries, bookstores and in our webshop.

In this captivating book, John Gray questions most of our assumptions about what it means to be human and convincingly shows that most of them are misconceptions. Using examples ranging from Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, the author argues that the Western tradition was based on arrogant and wrong beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. Gray considers humanism to be a secular religion made up of remnants of Christian myth, and sees technology only as a tool with which humans will continue to destroy the planet and each other. In contrast, he advocates James Lovelock's theory of Gaia, according to which the natural world self-regulates to maintain the conditions of life on the planet, with no special place for humanity in it. Philosophies such as liberalism and Marxism think of humanity as a species whose destiny is to transcend natural limits and conquer the Earth. John Gray argues that this belief in human supremacy is a dangerous illusion and explores what the world and human life look like after the final break with humanism. The result is this radical philosophical work that prompts the reader to question his or her deepest beliefs.

You can learn more about the book here.