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Eagleton, Terry (7 September 2002). "Review: Straw Dogs by John Gray". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 9 August 2013. Gray, John (1996). Mill on Liberty: A Defence (2nded.). London & New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-12474-4. He formerly held posts as lecturer in political theory at the University of Essex, fellow and tutor in politics at Jesus College, Oxford, and lecturer and then professor of politics at the University of Oxford. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University (1985–86) and Stranahan Fellow at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University (1990–1994), and has also held visiting professorships at Tulane University's Murphy Institute (1991) and Yale University (1994). He was Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science until his retirement from academic life in early 2008. John Gray interview: how an English academic become the world's pre-eminent prophet of doom". The Telegraph. London. 28 February 2013 . Retrieved 9 August 2013. In his 2004 book, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, the British journalist, writer and broadcaster, Francis Wheen, wrote:

Cray Valley Paper Mills were originally a works team for a paper mill near Orpington which closed down many years ago. The team later moved to Eltham, where they are now based. How many rounds have Cray Valley Paper Mills had to play to face Charlton Athletic? Gray's political thought is noted for its mobility across the political spectrum over the years. As a student, Gray was on the left and continued to vote Labour into the mid-1970s. By 1976 he had shifted towards a right-liberal New Right position, on the basis that the world was changing irrevocably through technological inventions, realigned financial markets and new economic power blocs and that the left failed to comprehend the magnitude and nature of this change. [8] In the 1990s Gray became an advocate for environmentalism and New Labour. Gray considers the conventional (left-wing/right-wing) political spectrum of conservatism and social democracy as no longer viable. [9] More generally, agonistic liberalism could be used to describe any kind of liberalism that claims its own value commitments do not form a complete vision of politics and society, and that one instead needs to look for what Berlin calls an "uneasy equilibrium" between competing values. In Gray's view, many contemporary liberal theorists would fall into this category, for instance John Rawls and Karl Popper. [ citation needed] Reception [ edit ] Acclaim [ edit ] Corey Robin (2011). The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin. Oxford University Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-19-991188-2.De Botton, Alain (4 March 2013). "Alain de Botton on five great philosophical pessimists". The Telegraph . Retrieved 1 December 2022. Gray, John (2013). The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-22917-7. John Nicholas Gray (born 17 April 1948) is an English political philosopher and author with interests in analytic philosophy, the history of ideas, [1] and philosophical pessimism. [2] He retired in 2008 as School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gray contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, where he is the lead book reviewer. He is an atheist. [3] Gray, John (2003). Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern. New York: The New Press. ISBN 978-1-56584-805-4. His 2002 book Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals has received particular praise. J. G. Ballard wrote that the book "challenges most of our assumptions about what it means to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions" and described it "a powerful and brilliant book", "an essential guide to the new millennium" and "the most exhilarating book I have read since Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene." [24] Will Self called the book "a contemporary work of philosophy devoid of jargon, wholly accessible, and profoundly relevant to the rapidly evolving world we live in" and wrote "I read it once, I read it twice and took notes. I arranged to meet its author so I could publicise the book – I thought it that good." [15] [24]

Gray, John (2021). Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-198842-9.

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Wheen, Francis (2004). How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World. London: HarperCollinsFourth Estate. p.187. ISBN 0-00-714097-5. Gray, John (1998). Liberalism (2nded.). Milton Keynes: Open University Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-2801-8.