The soul of the marionette : a short inquiry into human freedom / John Gray

Author:: Gray, John, 1948-
Additional Titles:: Short inquiry into human freedom and Human freedom
Published:: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015.
Edition:: First American edition.
Physical Description:: 179 pages ; 22 cm

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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.

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.

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Miscellanea

ISBN:

9780374261184 (hardcover)
0374261180 (hardcover)

Note:

"Originally published in 2015 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain"--Title page verso.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179).

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