A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom

We flatter ourselves that we yearn to be free - but what is it that we actually want when we seek freedom? Instead of embracing our condition we battle against it, with everyone from world ancient mystics to modern scientists dreaming of a type of freedom almost comically at odds with our true state. John Gray draws together religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom.

Speaker biography:

John Gray's books include Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, Al-Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern, Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, The Immortalisation Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death, The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths and The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom.

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