false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172925559m/230733.jpg 230733 4 Straw Dogs is an exciting, radical 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 the belief that humans are radically different from other animals. Taking inspiration from art, poetry, the frontiers of science, and philosophy itself, John Gray argues that the belief in human difference is an illusion and offers instead a post humanist view of the world. Straw Dogs is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing, book that explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned. 223467 2002 Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals total:177|5:65|4:63|3:35|2:12|1:2| 177 708 290 26 5 5 false false Fri Aug 21 02:49:22 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 23 10:20:00 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 21 02:49:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 5 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Mar 06 17:25:12 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 17:41:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 03 10:53:18 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 12:41:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 11 05:47:22 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 05:58:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 07:13:31 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 18:15:26 -0700 2009 2
To look up and find not Jesus, but a dog. Nothing would be better, which seems to be the point of this book. Nothing is all that there is.

That's what I wrote after the first reading dimmed. I've just re-read the book, and it wears OK. I went from 3 to 5 stars.

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