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

By John Gray

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
Year
2015
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
325 kB (333232 bytes)
Pages
192\0
Time added
2015-05-03 13:49:47

Description

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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