{"product_id":"feline-philosophy-cats-and-the-meaning-of-life-paperback","title":"Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Gray\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe author of\u003ci\u003e Straw Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eand what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can learn more from cats--the animal that has most captured our imagination--than from the great thinkers of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFeline Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, the philosopher John Gray discovers in cats a way of living that is unburdened by anxiety and self-consciousness, showing how they embody answers to the big questions of love and attachment, mortality, morality, and the Self: Montaigne's house cat, whose un-examined life may have been the one worth living; Meo, the Vietnam War survivor with an unshakable capacity for \"fearless joy\"; and Colette's Saha, the feline heroine of her subversive short story \"The Cat\"\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ea parable about the pitfalls of human jealousy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExploring the nature of cats, and what we can learn from it, Gray offers a profound, thought-provoking meditation on the follies of human exceptionalism and our fundamentally vulnerable and lonely condition. He charts a path toward a life without illusions and delusions, revealing how we can endure both crisis and transformation, and adapt to a changed scene, as cats have always done.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Gray \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of many critically acclaimed books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Silence of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Immortalization Commission\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Black Mass\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eStraw Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e. A regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. He now writes full-ti\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 26, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985240949037,"sku":"9781250800251","price":17.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/TWFhbGR0MVk5dkkzMkEvTTMxRVZydz09.webp?v=1776113563","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/feline-philosophy-cats-and-the-meaning-of-life-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}