Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings
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| "In these grey times, there’s nothing like a vicious, colourful but slightly pointless literary feud to bring a bit of gaiety to the nation. We can no longer rely on [[Martin Amis]] and [[Terry Eagleton]], who have gone rather quiet after their ferocious squabble about terrorism and Islam. So the country now looks to author Christopher Hitchens and philosopher John Gray. | "In these grey times, there’s nothing like a vicious, colourful but slightly pointless literary feud to bring a bit of gaiety to the nation. We can no longer rely on [[Martin Amis]] and [[Terry Eagleton]], who have gone rather quiet after their ferocious squabble about terrorism and Islam. So the country now looks to author Christopher Hitchens and philosopher John Gray. | ||
| - | Gray has a book out next month, ''Gray’s Anatomy'', which includes a chapter on torture. He mentions that Hitchens endured Guantanamo-style waterboarding – where water is continually poured over a prisoner’s face – as part of his research into the same subject. “Hitchens – a notable partisan of Enlightenment – defends [torture] as part of the global struggle to defend Enlightenment values against Islamist fundamentalism,” says Gray. Hitchens is furious at the accusation that he favours torture. “This is a direct falsification of my views,” he splutters. Light the blue touch paper and retire." | + | Gray has a book out next month, ''Gray’s Anatomy'', which includes a chapter on torture. He mentions that Hitchens endured Guantanamo-style waterboarding – where water is continually poured over a prisoner’s face – as part of his research into the same subject. “Hitchens – a notable partisan of Enlightenment – defends [torture] as part of the global struggle to defend Enlightenment values against Islamist fundamentalism,” says Gray. Hitchens is furious at the accusation that he favours torture. “This is a direct falsification of my views,” he splutters. Light the blue touch paper and retire."[http://christopherhitchenswatch.blogspot.com/2009/03/hitchens-tortured-logic-that-he-isnt.html] |
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"In these grey times, there’s nothing like a vicious, colourful but slightly pointless literary feud to bring a bit of gaiety to the nation. We can no longer rely on Martin Amis and Terry Eagleton, who have gone rather quiet after their ferocious squabble about terrorism and Islam. So the country now looks to author Christopher Hitchens and philosopher John Gray. Gray has a book out next month, Gray’s Anatomy, which includes a chapter on torture. He mentions that Hitchens endured Guantanamo-style waterboarding – where water is continually poured over a prisoner’s face – as part of his research into the same subject. “Hitchens – a notable partisan of Enlightenment – defends [torture] as part of the global struggle to defend Enlightenment values against Islamist fundamentalism,” says Gray. Hitchens is furious at the accusation that he favours torture. “This is a direct falsification of my views,” he splutters. Light the blue touch paper and retire."[1] |
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Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings (2009) is a collection of writings by John Gray.
The book's launch was noted by the fact that Christopher Hitchens forced an early print of the book to be pulped because of remarks Gray had made regarding Hitchens's stand on torture.
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Part One Liberalism: An Autopsy 1 Modus vivendi 2 John Stuart Mill and the idea of progress 3 Santayana’s alternative 4 Oakeshott as a liberal 5 Notes towards a definition of the political thought of Tlon 6 Isaiah Berlin: the value of decency 7 George Soros and the open society
Part Two The Euthanasia of Conservatism 8 Hayek as a conservative 9 A conservative disposition 10 The strange death of Tory England 11 Tony Blair, neo-con 12 Margaret Thatcher and the euthanasia of Conservatism
Part Three From Post-Communism to Deglobalization 13 The system of ruins 14 Cultural origins of Soviet Communism 15 Western Marxism: a fictionalist deconstruction 16 The end of history, again? 17 What globalization is not 18 The world is round
Part Four Enlightenment and Terror 19 The original modernizers 20 The Jacobins of Washington 21 Torture: a modest proposal 22 A modest defence of George W. Bush 23 Evangelical atheism, secular Christianity
Part Five After Progress 24 An agenda for Green conservatism 25 Joseph Conrad, our contemporary 26 Theodore Powys and the life of contemplation 27 Homo rapiens and mass extinction 28 A report to the Academy 29 The body disassembled in Damien Hirst 30 As it is
Notes Acknowledgements Permissions Index
