Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life

by John Gray

Lots of fans of cats and British philosopher John Gray will be delighted to hear that he’s devoted a whole book to them. In his interview with us, Gray recommended books on ‘critiques of utopia and apocalypse.‘

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” Gray uses animals as a counterpoint to all of the absurdities and silliness of present-day human ideologies. His main critique is of the concept of progress: that’s a theme that runs throughout all his work. He doesn’t think we’re making any “progress” and even if we were, it wouldn’t be a good thing. Feline Philosophy is a very short and very readable book and he cites Zhuangzi in it. His main book is called Straw Dogs, which is a line out of the Daodejing. So he cites Daoism quite often. When I’m trying to get my friends to read John Gray, I say he’s a guy who went so far down the rabbit hole of British philosophy that he came out on the other side as a Daoist mystic.” Read more...

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