The Soul of the Marionette - by John Gray (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In his brilliantly enjoyable and freewheeling new book, 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--logical, 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. <p/>Filled with wonderful examples and drawing on the widest possible reading (from the Gnostics to Philip K. Dick), <i>The Soul of the Marionette</i> is a stimulating and engaging meditation on everything from cybernetics to the fairground marionettes of the title.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John Gray </b>is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including <i>The Silence of Animals</i>, <i> The Immortalization Commission</i>, <i> Black Mass</i>, <i> </i>and <i>Straw Dogs</i>. A regular contributor to <i>The New York Review of Books</i>, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. He now writes full-ti
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