Gray John Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life 9780374154110

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Автор: Gray John (Грей Джон)
Название: Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
ISBN: 9780374154110
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0374154112
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 144
Вес: 0.25 кг.
Дата издания: 17.11.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 213 x 137 x 18
Поставляется из: США
Описание:

The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats--and what they reveal about humans torturous relationship to the world and to themselves.

The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can learn more from cats--the animal that has most captured our imagination--than from the great thinkers of the world.

In Feline Philosophy, the philosopher John Gray discovers in cats a way of living that is unburdened by anxiety and self-consciousness, showing how they embody answers to the big questions of love and attachment, mortality, morality, and the Self: Montaignes house cat, whose un-examined life may have been the one worth living; Meo, the Vietnam War survivor with an unshakable capacity for fearless joy; and Colettes Saha, the feline heroine of her subversive short story The Cat, a parable about the pitfalls of human jealousy. Exploring the nature of cats, and what we can learn from it, Gray offers a profound, thought-provoking meditation on the follies of human exceptionalism and our fundamentally vulnerable and lonely condition. He charts a path toward a life without illusions and delusions, revealing how we can endure both crisis and transformation, and adapt to a changed scene, as cats have always done.

Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life, Gray John