The Soul of the Marionette - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soul of the Marionette write by John Gray. This book was released on 2015-05-19. The Soul of the Marionette available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Originally published in 2015 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
The Soul of the Marionette
The Soul of the Marionette - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soul of the Marionette write by John Gray. This book was released on 2015-05-19. The Soul of the Marionette available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Compared with that of humans, the life of the marionette looks more like an enviable state of freedom In his brilliantly enjoyable and freewheeling new book, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic, and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces—logical, physical, metaphysical—constrain our every action. Many writers and intellectuals have always understood this, but instead of embracing our condition we battle against it, with everyone from world conquerors to modern scientists dreaming of a "human dominion" almost comically at odds with our true state. Filled with wonderful examples and drawing on the widest possible reading (from the Gnostics to Philip K. Dick), The Soul of the Marionette is a stimulating and engaging meditation on everything from cybernetics to the fairground marionettes of the title.
The Soul of the Marionette
The Soul of the Marionette - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soul of the Marionette write by John Gray. This book was released on 2015-05-19. The Soul of the Marionette available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Originally published in 2015 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
The Motion of Puppets
The Motion of Puppets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Motion of Puppets write by Keith Donohue. This book was released on 2016-10-04. The Motion of Puppets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the bestselling author of The Boy Who Drew Monsters and The Stolen Child comes a modern take on the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth—A Suspenseful tale of romance and enchantment In the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter inside. The next morning Theo wakes up to discover his wife is missing. Under police suspicion and frantic at her disappearance, he obsessively searches the streets of the Old City. Meanwhile, Kay has been transformed into a puppet, and is now a prisoner of the back room of the Quatre Mains, trapped with an odd assemblage of puppets from all over the world who can only come alive between the hours of midnight and dawn. The only way she can return to the human world is if Theo can find her and recognize her in her new form. So begins the dual odyssey of Keith Donohue’s The Motion of Puppets: of a husband determined to find his wife, and of a woman trapped in a magical world where her life is not her own.
Are You an Illusion?
Are You an Illusion? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Are You an Illusion? write by Mary Midgley. This book was released on 2023-09-28. Are You an Illusion? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, the renowned philosopher Mary Midgley shows that there’s much more to our selves than a jumble of brain cells. Exploring the remarkable gap that has opened up between our understanding of our sense of self and today’s science, Midgley argues powerfully and persuasively that the rich variety of our imaginative life cannot be contained in the narrow bounds of a highly puritanical materialism that simply equates brain and self. Engaging with the work of prominent thinkers, Midgley investigates the source of our current attitudes to the self and reveals how ideas, traditions and myths have been twisted to fit in, seemingly naturally, with science’s current preoccupation with the physical and material. Midgley shows that the subjective sources of thought – our own experiences – are every bit as necessary in helping to explain the world as the objective ones such as brain cells. Are You an Illusion? offers a salutary analysis of science’s claim to have done away with the self and a characteristic injection of common sense from one of our most respected philosophers into a debate increasingly in need of it. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Stephen Cave.
