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Gray's Anatomy

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141981116

  • Length: 640  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 436g

  • RRP: £14.99

Gray's Anatomy

  • Selected Writings

'The most prescient of British public intellectuals' Pankaj Mishra, Financial Times

Updated with a new foreword and two new chapters of John Gray's writing.

Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why do beliefs that humanity can be improved end in farce or horror? Is atheism a hangover from Christian faith? John Gray, one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time, smashes through civilization's long cherished beliefs, overturning our view of the world and our place in it.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141981116

  • Length: 640  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 436g

  • RRP: £14.99

Reviews

  • Gray's dissection of modern delusion, cant and wishful thinking is to be welcomed in this moment of convulsion ... This is a book to learn from and argue with

    Ben Wilson, Literary Review

  • A thoroughly enjoyable book ... These essays cover a remarkable range of topics, from Isaiah Berlin to Damien Hirst, from torture to environmentalism. But their unifying theme is that our naïve belief in the idea of progress has turned modern life into a constant round of shadow-boxing

    David Runciman, Observer

  • A visionary ... one of the most reliably provocative and heterodox voices in British intellectual life today

    Jonathan Derbyshire, New Statesman

  • Gray has consistently anticipated the shape of things to come . . . he teaches us that true humanism is to be found in uncertainty and doubt

    Will Self

  • Invigorating...elegant, witty, incisive... Gray's assault on Enlightenment ideas of progress is timelier than ever

    John Banville, The Guardian

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About the Author

John Gray

John Gray's most recent book is the highly praised Seven Types of Atheism; his other books include Straw Dogs, Black Mass, The Soul of the Marionette and The Silence of Animals. He has kept feline companions for over thirty years.

John Gray

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