{"title":"John Gray","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Gray é filósofo britânico, autor de obras influentes como \u003cem\u003eA alma da marionete\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMissa negra\u003c\/em\u003e e \u003cem\u003eA anatomia de Gray\u003c\/em\u003e. Foi professor de Pensamento Europeu na London School of Economics e lecionou também em Oxford, Harvard e Yale. Atualmente, escreve para a revista \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e, onde é reconhecido por suas análises incisivas sobre política, filosofia e cultura. Seu trabalho se destaca por questionar frontalmente o humanismo secular, a ideia de progresso e os fundamentos morais da modernidade.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-busca-pela-imortalidade","title":"The search for immortality","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of Straw Dogs and Black Mass, the implications of John Gray's \u003cem\u003eThe Search for Mortality\u003c\/em\u003e will haunt readers for the rest of their lives—and perhaps beyond.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The obsession with the nature of death and humanity's various attempts to explain and even prove the existence of life after death are the themes of this book. The refusal to believe that death is the end of everything and to insist on our immortality resulted in various experiments and ideologies that, as Gray explains, persist to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Here, Gray presents two major examples of this: the belief of a group of Edwardian intellectuals that there was a form of life after death (accessed by mediums and automatic writing) and the certainty that the science of communism in the new USSR could reshape the planet, reinventing human beings and freeing them from death—and, in the process, resurrecting revolutionary leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe author interweaves these cases with extraordinary stories of philosophers, politicians, spiritualists, embalmers, mad inventors, passionate physicists, spy journalists, and mass murderers, all driven by a modern worldview that science would make humanity invincible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Quest for Mortality\u003c\/em\u003e offers a brilliant and frightening vision of a world beginning to grapple with man's solitary place in the universe, and a revealing story of our delirious quest for immortality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159417143548,"sku":"9788501094278","price":74.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/2a5a76834f7388681e95e12cf623add7_e05130bf-a82a-438b-98f9-65fd18c85501.jpg?v=1778815861"},{"product_id":"o-silencio-dos-animais","title":"The silence of animals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEven humans are capable of finding silence, if they can forget the silence they seek. From the author of the bestselling books \u003cem\u003eStraw Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e , \u003cem\u003eBlack Mass\u003c\/em\u003e , and \u003cem\u003eGray's Anatomy\u003c\/em\u003e , \u003cem\u003eThe Silence of the Animals\u003c\/em\u003e explores humanity's questions about progress and other modern myths.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Why does man seek meaning in life? How does our imagination reach worlds so far removed from reality itself? Blending lyricism and wisdom, humor and seriousness, denial and bluntness, John Gray discusses how we deal with the world when we lose faith in progress and human moral evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDrawing on references as diverse as Ballard, Borges, Conrad, and Freud, authors who explored the extremes of human experience—what happens to us when we are hungry, when we fight, when we are imprisoned—Gray draws from a rich tapestry of memoirs, poems, fiction, and philosophy to analyze the persistence of myth in the contemporary world and force us to reimagine our place in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Inquisitive and captivating, The Silence of Animals is a contemporary essay on how we base our existence on countless fictions, going around in circles to avoid admitting that we too are animals, separated from others only by our vanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174739362044,"sku":"9788501116222","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/ed55e532d0a57bcc9cae525e60566632_2683af1d-b8fe-4915-8c2e-01f94ba52a40.jpg?v=1781755302"},{"product_id":"sete-tipos-de-ateismo","title":"Seven types of atheism","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Quest for Immortality\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Soul of the Puppet\u003c\/em\u003e , an exploration of atheism and religion.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAnyone who wants to understand atheism and religion must set aside the popular assumption that they are opposites. For an entire generation, public debate has been corrupted by a reductionist and hysterical derision of religion in favor of a vague notion of \"science.\" In \u003cem\u003eSeven Types of Atheism\u003c\/em\u003e , John Gray describes the complex and dynamic world of ancient atheisms, a tradition that is in many ways intertwined with religion, and is just as rich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDefining atheism is like trying to capture the diversity of religions in a single formula. Gray thus classifies the atheisms analyzed in this book: the \"new atheism,\" which attacks religion without attempting to understand it; secular humanism; the atheism that transforms science into religion (which includes evolutionary humanism, mesmerism, dialectical materialism, and contemporary transhumanism); modern political religions, from Jacobinism to contemporary evangelical liberalism, including communism and Nazism; the atheism of those who hate God, like the Marquis de Sade; the atheisms that reject the idea of a creator god without any compassion for \"humanity\"; and the mystical atheism of Arthur Schopenhauer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe author explores the various ways great minds have sought to understand the questions of salvation, purpose, progress, and evil. \u003cem\u003eSeven Types of Atheism\u003c\/em\u003e is a surprising and incisive intervention in the political and scientific debate about religion and atheism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174747226364,"sku":"9788501118547","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/e98cf45e69be7fd4c44551dd14d1b2ed.jpg?v=1779246840"},{"product_id":"filosofia-felina","title":"Feline philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWhat is the meaning of life? We seek answers to our anxieties in philosophy and religion, but don't cats have something to teach us?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn seeking solutions to our greatest concerns, humanity created, among other things, philosophy. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have explored perennial human questions, but perhaps we have as much to learn from cats as from the great philosophers. \u003cem\u003eFeline philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e addresses various philosophical lines over time and highlights another perspective: that of cats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e By analyzing feline nature, with the participation of unusual characters—such as Montaigne's cat; Mèo, the cat who survived the Vietnam War; or Saha, the heroine of the short novel \u003cem\u003eLa Chatte\u003c\/em\u003e (1933), written by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette—we are confronted with the fruitless complexity that we humans have created for ourselves. John Gray confronts cat behavior with some of humanity's greatest questions: the pursuit of happiness, ethics and morality, love, time and death, and the meaning of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeline Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e offers a profound and provocative reflection on our worldview, our claim to superiority, and the fundamental vulnerability and loneliness of the human species. John Gray proposes that we experience life without illusions, self-deception, and imaginary pursuits, and shows that we can face suffering and transformation as cats have always done—without constant fear and with the joy of living in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175557251324,"sku":"9786555874952","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/7ec4b53cd751b416336ed16ddfa4da3f.jpg?v=1778815768"},{"product_id":"a-anatomia-de-gray","title":"Gray's Anatomy","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWhy is the human imagination to blame for the worst crimes of the 20th century? Why is progress a pernicious myth? And is today's atheism a byproduct of Christian faith? Celebrated by British intellectuals, one of the most original and iconoclastic thinkers of our time, John Gray is a master at asking disconcerting questions about the fantasies of democratic capitalism.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In \u003cem\u003eGray's Anatomy\u003c\/em\u003e , John Gray remains sharp and brings together his most important articles, written over the past 30 years. A timeline of his intellectual output, it addresses topics such as atheism, scientific progress, and human reason. Here, Gray—also author of the controversial Straw Dogs and Black Mass—challenges the concepts of anthropocentrism and what it means to be human, and suggests new ways of thinking and feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eHis skepticism about the nature and dreams of the Enlightenment is a corrective to all kinds of utopians. \"The point of showing the fragility of everything seemingly solid is not to present an immutable truth and persuade the reader to accept it. Persuasion is a missionary enterprise, the goal of which is conversion. Rather, the goal is to present a record of what an observer saw, which readers can use as they wish,\" argues Gray.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Read as a vivisection of contemporary beliefs, these articles demonstrate the major changes in society over these decades. These essays cover diverse subjects, from Isaiah Berlin to Damien Hirst, from torture to environmentalism, from militant atheists like Dawkins and Hitchens to the war on terrorism and technology. But there is a common theme throughout the essays in \u003cem\u003eGray's Anatomy\u003c\/em\u003e : the naive belief in the idea of progress that has guided politics, economics, and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003ePoignant and brilliant, \u003cem\u003eGray's Anatomy\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the flaws in our most cherished beliefs and changes our view of the world and our place in it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176724545788,"sku":"9788501087836","price":89.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/8f1ac4c273f69d60e805dae41b81c897_641033ee-6dd9-4153-a6af-e51f36ef83f2.jpg?v=1778873976"},{"product_id":"a-alma-da-marionete","title":"The soul of the puppet","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFaced with the possibility of freedom, everyone wants freedom. Is that so? From the acclaimed author of Straw Dogs and Black Mass, John Gray offers a reflection on freedom and human free will.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe existence of free will has always been a source of human pride and vanity; however, the greatest forces surrounding us—biological, physical, and metaphysical—constrain our every action. Many writers and intellectuals have understood this condition, but instead of accepting it, they have waged constant struggles against it. We base our concept of existence on the idea that we have control over our actions, our consciousness, and our world, yet we are enslaved by the supposedly unlimited freedom before us, unaware that human life is guided by the anxiety of deciding how to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn a melting pot of references to theorists and writers such as Heinrich von Kleist, Giacomo Leopardi, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, Philip K. 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Em \u003cem\u003eCachorros de palha\u003c\/em\u003e, uma das obras filosóficas mais impactantes publicadas no século XXI, John Gray desconstrói mitos como progresso, liberdade e controle da natureza, e propõe uma visão pós-humanista em que o ser humano é apenas mais um animal entre outros.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEm \u003cem\u003eCachorros de palha\u003c\/em\u003e, John Gray entrega ao leitor uma reflexão poderosa e sem concessões sobre a condição humana. Rejeitando a ideia de que o ser humano ocupa um lugar central no universo, Gray desvela o caráter ilusório das crenças modernas no progresso, na liberdade e no controle da natureza. Em vez de vislumbrar um destino grandioso para a humanidade, ele aponta para uma realidade incômoda: a de que não somos diferentes dos outros animais, e de que talvez nunca tenhamos realmente escapado de nossos instintos mais básicos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCom escrita clara e argumentos contundentes, o autor desmonta as certezas do pensamento ocidental — de Platão ao cristianismo, do Iluminismo a Nietzsche e Marx — para mostrar como nossas ideias de superioridade humana são, na verdade, construções frágeis e ilusórias. Ao propor uma visão pós-humanista, o resultado é um livro instigante, às vezes desconcertante, que convida o leitor a repensar profundamente suas crenças mais fundamentais.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eO pessimismo ambiental de Gray, inspirado por fontes tão diversas quanto a arte, a poesia, a ciência contemporânea e a filosofia clássica, revela uma lucidez rara e um senso profundo das limitações humanas. Com uma lucidez rara e um senso profundo das limitações humanas de Gray, \u003cem\u003eCachorros de palha\u003c\/em\u003e é uma obra filosófica provocadora e surpreendente, que desafia tudo o que acreditamos saber sobre o que significa ser humano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eCachorros de palha\u003c\/em\u003e, de John Gray, é uma raridade, um trabalho contemporâneo de filosofia sem jargões, completamente acessível e profundamente relevante para o mundo em constante evolução em que vivemos.” \u003cem\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Não precisamos de Darwin para perceber que nos parecemos com os outros animais. Basta observar um pouco nossas vidas para sermos levados à mesma conclusão. No entanto, como a ciência tem hoje uma autoridade com a qual a experiência comum não pode rivalizar, observemos o ensinamento de Darwin de que as espécies são apenas aglomerados de genes interagindo aleatoriamente uns com os outros e com seus ambientes em permanente mudança. Espécies não podem controlar seus destinos. Espécies não existem. Isso se aplica igualmente aos humanos.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48522702160124,"sku":"9788501924513","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/f98ff34c76f9faa6100ab32e5c347429_7a286264-83a4-4668-a175-503281ab885f.jpg?v=1782187256"},{"product_id":"missa-negra","title":"Missa negra","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuando a política toma a forma de fé, a história se repete como ritual. Em \u003cem\u003eMissa negra: religião apocalíptica e o fim das utopias\u003c\/em\u003e, John Gray revela como as utopias modernas carregam a sombra do apocalipse.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUm dos mais importantes pensadores da atualidade, John Gray investiga em \u003cem\u003eMissa negra \u003c\/em\u003ea perversão da política pela religião, mostrando que essa subversão é o tema-chave da história recente. Em uma alusão ao ritual sacrílego no qual a missa cristã é rezada de trás para frente, ele sustenta que o sistema político preserva o que há de mais arcaico e tenebroso nas tradições religiosas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnalisando os conflitos mais destrutivos dos últimos séculos, Gray conclui que as religiões políticas se apropriaram o mito do Apocalipse, como uma crença em um evento que mudaria o mundo e levaria ao fim da história e de todos os seus conflitos. Dos jacobinos aos bolcheviques, dos anarquistas russos aos norte-americanos conservadores, as políticas modernas têm sido guiadas por versões corrompidas do mito do fim do mundo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGray demonstra que o renascimento de uma época de barbáries embasadas pela religião apocalíptica é real, aprofundando-se na ideia de que a transição de um pensamento mítico para uma visão racional, a qual as pessoas acreditam ter acontecido na era moderna com o triunfo do Iluminismo, nunca ocorreu. O pensamento iluminista seria baseado não na ciência, mas nos mesmos mitos cristãos da perfeição humana. Consequentemente, a crença na utopia e as noções de progresso humano que sustentaram as políticas modernas seriam versões seculares da fé religiosa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCom notável erudição e um domínio assombroso de teoria política, John Gray afirma que a morte das utopias não é sinônimo de paz. 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