Straw Dogs · Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by Gray, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Notice Epigraph Foreword to the Paperback Edition 1. The Human

1. Science Versus Humanism 2. The Mirage of Conscious Evolution 3. Disseminated Primatemaia 4. Why Humanity will Never Master Technology 5. Green Humanism 6. Against Fundamentalism – Religious and Scientific 7. Science’s Irrational Origins 8. Science as a Remedy for Anthropocentrism 9. Truth and Consequences 10. A Pascal for the Enlightenment 11. Humanism Versus Naturalism 12. Straw Dogs

2. The Deception

1. At the Masked ball 2. Schopenhauer’s Crux 3. Nietzsche’s ‘Optimism’ 4. Heidegger’s Humanism 5. Conversing with Lions 6. ‘Postmodernism’ 7. Animal Faith 8. Plato and the Alphabet 9. Against the cult of Personality 10. The Poverty of Consciousness 11. Lord Jim’s Jump 12. Our Virtual Selves 13. Mr Nobody 14. The Ultimate Dream 15. The Experiment

3. The Vices of Morality

1. Porcelain and the price of life 2. Morality as Superstition 3. The Unsanctity of Human life 4. Conscience 5. The Death of Tragedy 6. Justice and Fashion 7. What Every well-bred Englishman Knows 8. Psychoanalysis and Moral Luck 9. Morality as an Aphrodisiac 10. A Weakness for Prudence 11. Socrates, Inventor of Morality 12. Immoral Morality 13. The Fetish of Choice 14. Animal Virtues

4. The Unsaved

1. Saviours 2. The Grand Inquisitor and Flying fish 3. In Praise of Polytheism 4. Atheism, the last Consequence of Christianity 5. Homer’s Vultures 6. In Search of Mortality 7. Dying Animals 8. Krishnamurti’s Burden 9. Gurdjieff’s ‘work’ and Stanislavski’s ‘Method’ 10. The Aerodrome 11. Nikolai Fedorov, Bolshevism and the Technological Pursuit of Immortality 12. Artificial Paradises 13. Gnosticism and the Cybernauts 14. Inside the Phantomat 15. The Mirror of Solitude 16. The Coast Opposite Humanity

5. Non-Progress

1. De Quincey’s Toothache 2. The Wheel 3. An Irony of History 4. The Discreet Poverty of the Former Middle Classes 5. The end of Equality 6. A Billion Balconies Facing the sun 7. Twentieth-century anti-capitalists, the Phalanstery and the Medieval Brethren of the free Spirit 8. Mesmerism and the new Economy 9. A Theory of Consciousness 10. Memories in Stones 11. The Myth of Modernisation 12. Al Qaeda 13. The Lesson of Japan 14. Russia in the Vanguard 15. ‘Western Values’ 16. Future war 17. War as play 18. Yet Another Utopia 19. Posthuman Evolution 20. The soul in the Machine

6. As it is

1. The Consolations of Action 2. Sisyphus’s Progress 3. Playing with fate 4. Turning back 5. Simply to see

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