The Repetition of History | Prof. John Gray #CLIP
August 24, 2022
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as posted by the channelJohn Gray reflects on our tendency to ignore the hard lessons of history which inevitably leads to its repetition.
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John Gray is an English political philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas. He retired 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.
Gray has written several influential books, including False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism (1998), Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2003), and Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (2007). False Dawn has been translated into sixteen languages.
A singularly original thinker, his books are widely acclaimed as seminal, significant and even prophetic.
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