Heresies: Against Progress And Other IllusionsGranta Books, 2 лип. 2015 р. - 224 стор. By the author of the best-selling Straw Dogs, this book is a characteristically trenchant and unflinchingly clear-sighted collection of reflections on our contemporary lot. Whether writing about the future of our species on this planet, the folly of our faith in technological progress, or the self-deceptions of the liberal establishment, John Gray dares to be heretical like few other thinkers today. |
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THE ILLUSION OF PROGRESS | 15 |
Progress the motheaten musical brocade | 17 |
Biotechnology and the posthuman future | 24 |
an era of solitude? | 32 |
Sex atheism and piano legs | 41 |
Faith in the matrix | 49 |
When the machine stops | 57 |
Americas war on evil | 124 |
a modest proposal | 132 |
American power | 139 |
Washingtons new Jacobins | 145 |
The mirage of American empire | 152 |
Iraq and the illusions of global governance | 159 |
Europes | 169 |
For Europes sake Britain must stay out | 179 |
Science as a vehicle for myth | 64 |
A report to the academy | 72 |
WAR TERRORISM AND IRAQ | 81 |
history resumes | 85 |
The decadence of market power | 92 |
Joseph Conrad our contemporary | 100 |
Back to Hobbes | 109 |
The new wars of scarcity | 115 |
Blair in retrospect | 187 |
Laying Thatchers ghost | 194 |
The society of the spectacle revisited | 202 |
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