ptolemy.co.uk » Progress http://ptolemy.co.uk mathematics and philosophy education Sat, 08 May 2010 22:01:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 John Gray – An Appreciation http://ptolemy.co.uk/history/john-gray-an-appreciation http://ptolemy.co.uk/history/john-gray-an-appreciation#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:32:28 +0000 Alec http://www.ptolemy.co.uk/blog/?p=107 My dad taught Philosophy and Sociology all of his professional life, and in his retirement continues to study and think about these subjects. He recently gave a talk about the work of John Gray to the Erasmus Darwin Society in Lichfield, Staffordshire.

John Gray is currently Professor of European Thought at the LSE, and has been an outspoken and controversial academic throughout his career. He has written about a great breadth of topics, but the thread of thought that ties his work together is his rejection of our contemporary belief in the progress of mankind.

The prepared text of my dad’s overview of Gray’s views is an excellent introductory text, with a good bibliography pointing towards further reading. I would strongly recommend this text to students as an overview of his thought.

John Gray, An Appreciation

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