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.
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264 1 |a New York :  |b Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,  |c 2015. 
300 |a 179 pages ;  |c 22 cm 
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500 |a "Originally published in 2015 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain"--Title page verso. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179). 
505 0 |a The faith of puppets: The freedom of the marionette ; the faith of puppets ; demiurgy and tailors' dummies ; Leopardi and the souls of machines ; the return of Ligeia ; The Golem and the circular ruins ; Solaris and our world ; The revelations of Philip K. Dick ; Entering the Zone ; Mr Weston drops a match -- In the puppet theatre: Roof gardens, feathers and human sacrifice ; Dark mirrors, hidden angels and an algorithmic prayer-wheel ; Human redundancy and the cyborg economy ; An iron mountain and a shifting spectacle ; A universal Panopticon ; Puppetry, conspiracy and Ouija boards ; When the machine stops -- Freedom for Über-marionettes: What science won't tell you ; Ethics for puppets ; Gravity and the fall. 
520 |a 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. 
600 1 0 |a Kleist, Heinrich von,  |d 1777-1811.  |t Über das Marionettentheater. 
650 0 |a Liberty. 
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