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Everyone thinks they want to be free - or do they? John Gray's thought-stirring new book on freedom draws together insights from Gnosticism, science fiction, ancient sacrifice and the occult to show that freedom is an illusion and that, like fairground puppets, humans dream of escaping the burden of choice altogether.
John Gray is the author of a number of highly regarded and controversial books, including False Dawn, Straw Dogs and, most recently, The Silence of Animals. He has taught at Oxford, Harvard, Yale and the LSE. John Banville described The Silence of Animals as 'a marvellous statement of what it is to be both an animal and a human in the strange, terrifying and exquisite world in which we straw dogs find ourselves'.
A generous and energising tumble of ideas...he is inventive and
penetrating
*Financial Times*
Like Isaiah Berlin with a thing for sci-fi
*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
*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
*The Guardian*
A brain-twisting meditation on freedom...a brief, elliptical
inquiry designed to raise more questions than anyone could
answer
*Kirkus Reviews*
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