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.
| Main Author: | Gray, John, 1948- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
2015.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.