From the provocative author of Straw Dogs comes an incisive, surprising intervention in the political and scientific debate over religion and atheism When you e

"An exploration of the failures of reason in human life and the enduring role of myth in science, politics, and morality"--

This book provides a detailed, updated exposition and defense of five of the historically most important (but in recent years largely neglected) philosophical p

"Originally published in 2015 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain"--Title page verso.

John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a mainstream readership to a man who w