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The soul of the marionette a short inquiry into human freedom

In The Soul of the Marionette, his brilliantly enjoyable and freewheeling book, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic, and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom.

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Main Author:	Gray, John, 1948-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015.
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Kleist, Heinrich von, > 1777-1811. > Über das Marionettentheater. Liberty. Marionettes > Miscellanea. Trivia and miscellanea.
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Summary:	In The Soul of the Marionette, his brilliantly enjoyable and freewheeling book, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic, and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom.
Item Description:	"Originally published in 2015 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:	179 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179).
ISBN:	9780374261184 0374261180
Author Notes:	John Gray is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including The Silence of Animals, The Immortalization Commission , Black Mass , and Straw Dogs . A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books , 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-time.