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The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom

The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom

by JohnGray (Author)

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Synopsis

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 In The Soul of the Marionette, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces - biological, physical, metaphysical - constrain our every action. Many writers and intellectuals have always understood this, but instead of embracing our condition we battle against it, with everyone from world conquerors to modern scientists dreaming of a 'human dominion' almost comically at odds with our true state. This is a stimulating and enraging meditation on everything from cybernetics to the fairground marionettes of the title.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 05 Mar 2015
ISBN 10: 1846144493
ISBN 13: 9781846144493

Media Reviews
A generous and energising tumble of ideas...he is inventive and penetrating -- Galen Strawson * Financial Times *
Like Isaiah Berlin with a thing for sci-fi -- Tibor Fischer * The Spectator *
We might believe that we are on a voyage towards a future of perfect freedom, but Gray is here to tell us that we are really only going round in circles, repeating ancient heresies, and retelling old myths in modern cant -- Stephen Cave * Literary Review *
Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a magpie of genius -- John Banville * The Guardian *
A brain-twisting meditation on freedom...a brief, elliptical inquiry designed to raise more questions than anyone could answer * Kirkus Reviews *
Perhaps the most brilliant of his originally structured enquiries , brings home, with infectious learning, the many self-deceptions behind our reverence for freedom -- Paul Binding * TLS *
Author Bio
John Gray's major books include Straw Dogs, Black Mass and The Silence of Animals. A second edition of his essays, Gray's Anatomy, was published in 2016. He now principally writes for the New Statesman.