Gray's anatomy.(Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals; Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern: 2 books by John Gray, professor of European thought, London School of Economics)(Book Review)
Nation, The, December, 2003 by Postel, Danny
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals. By John Gray. Granta. 246 pp. $21.95.
Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern. By John Gray. New Press. 145 pp. $22.95.
We live, it has been said, in a postideological age. Ideologically confused might be more like it. Either way, there is no question that since the fall of the Berlin wall the ideological sands have been shifting. A good deal of the political map has been reshaped, its intellectual coordinates recombined with results that are by turns welcome and horrifying, but almost always amusing--at least to me.
This post-cold war road is paved with the personal journeys of intellectual and political figures of various stripes, many of whom have crisscrossed one another along the...
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