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Anglický filozof a politolog John Gray pokračuje ve vytříbeném, přitom však velmi břitkém, až nelítostném odhalování klamné iluze lidstva, která se nazývá víra v pokrok. Eseje původně vznikaly pro londýnský týdeník New Statesman, lze je tedy považovat i za svého druhu komentáře ke světovému dění na prahu 21. století. Gray, u nás známý zejména knihami Slamění psi či Dvě tváře liberalismu, vidí lidskou historii nikoli jako vzestupnou spirálu vedoucí do vysněného lepšího světa, ale jako nekonečný cyklus, v němž na sebe vzájemně působí proměnlivé znalosti a neměnné lidské potřeby. Jediné, čeho můžeme dosáhnout, je snažit se zkrotit drsnější instinkty člověka-divocha a drobnou prací omezovat síly, které hrozí, že nás zničí.
Fundamentalist terror movements are seen as reversions to medievalism, backlashes against a way of life that is the same everywhere. This view is a mirage. Thinking of modernity as a universal condition is a hindrance to understanding the present. Gray goes back to the origins of our notion of modernity in early nineteenth-century Positivism. Many economists imbibed their view that every society goes through the same developmental phases. Gray argues that September 11th destroyed the idea of globalisation as the sole pathway to modernity. He considers the role of the global free market, the pretensions of economics, the metamorphosis of war and the prospects of an American empire.
Straw Dogs is a work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. Philosophies such as liberalism and Marxism think of humankind as a species whose destiny is to transcend natural limits and conquer the Earth. Even in the present day, despite Darwin's discoveries, nearly all schools of thought take as their starting point the belief that humans are radically different from other animals. John Gray argues that this humanist belief is an illusion. The aim of Straw Dogs is to explore how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned.Straw Dogs explores philosophical issues such as the nature of the self, free will, morality, progress and the value of truth. Drawing his inspiration from art, poetry, and the frontiers of science as well as philosophy itself, John Gray presents a post-humanist view of the world and of human life. Straw Dogs is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that leads the reader to question their deepest beliefs.
Humoristisk skildring af en småborgerlig engelsk lærer, som kommer ud for en række barokke situationer på grund af sin kones hang til at følge tidens strømninger