ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: -
Jezik: Hrvatski
Autor: Strani

Iluzije globalnog kapitalizma. Dzon Grej. Kao nova knjiga.

Dzon Grej verovatno najvazniji zivi filozof.

Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as both `a convincing analysis of an international economy headed for disaster` and a `powerful challenge to economic orthodoxy,` False Dawn shows that the attempt to impose the Anglo-American-style free market on the world will create a disaster, possibly on the scale of Soviet communism. Even America, the supposed flagship of the new civilization, risks moral and social disintegration as it loses ground to other cultures that have never forgotten that the market works best when it is embedded in society. John Gray, well known in the 1980s as an important conservative political thinker, whose writings were relied upon by Margaret Thatcher and the New Right in Britain, has concluded that the conservative agenda is no longer viable. In his examination of the ripple effects of the economic turmoil in Russia and Asia on our collective future, Gray provides one of the most passionate polemics against the utopia of the free market since Carlyle and Marx.

Gray`s work has been praised by, amongst others, the novelists J. G. Ballard, Will Self and John Banville, the theologian Don Cupitt, the journalist Bryan Appleyard, the political scientist David Runciman, investor and philanthropist George Soros, the environmental scientist James Lovelock and the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb.[10][17][18][19][20][21]

Friedrich Hayek described Gray`s 1984 book Hayek on Liberty as `The first survey of my work which not only fully understands but is able to carry on my ideas beyond the point at which I left off.`[22]

Gray has discussed James Lovelock`s new ideas on evolution`s next step: a species beyond humanity that will be better able to co-exist with other species on this planet in the distant future.[citation needed]

His 1998 book False Dawn was praised by George Soros as `a powerful analysis of the deepening instability of global capitalism` which `should be read by all who are concerned about the future of the global economy`.[20] John Banville praised Black Mass, saying that `Gray`s assault on Enlightenment ideas of progress is timelier than ever`.[23]

His 2002 book Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals has received particular praise. J. G. Ballard wrote that the book `challenges most of our assumptions about what it means to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions` and described it `a powerful and brilliant book`, `an essential guide to the new millennium` and `the most exhilarating book I have read since Richard Dawkins`s The Selfish Gene.`[24] Will Self called the book `a contemporary work of philosophy devoid of jargon, wholly accessible, and profoundly relevant to the rapidly evolving world we live in` and wrote `I read it once, I read it twice and took notes. I arranged to meet its author so I could publicise the book – I thought it that good.`[17][24]

In 2002 Straw Dogs was named a book of the year by J. G. Ballard in The Daily Telegraph; by George Walden in The Sunday Telegraph; by Will Self, Joan Bakewell, Jason Cowley and David Marquand in the New Statesman; by Andrew Marr in The Observer; by Jim Crace in The Times; by Hugh Lawson Tancred in The Spectator; by Richard Holloway in the Glasgow Herald; and by Sue Cook in The Sunday Express.[citation needed]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has written that John Gray is the modern thinker for whom he has the most respect, calling him `prophetic`.[25]