The Soul of the Marionette
A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom
- Published: 5 March 2015
- ISBN: 9780141969015
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 192
A generous and energising tumble of ideas...he is inventive and penetrating
Galen Strawson, Financial Times
Like Isaiah Berlin with a thing for sci-fi
Tibor Fischer, The Spectator
We might believe that we are on a voyage towards a future of perfect freedom, but Gray is here to tell us that we are really only going round in circles, repeating ancient heresies, and retelling old myths in modern cant
Stephen Cave, Literary Review
Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a magpie of genius
John Banville, The Guardian
A brain-twisting meditation on freedom...a brief, elliptical inquiry designed to raise more questions than anyone could answer
Kirkus Reviews
Perhaps the most brilliant of his originally structured "enquiries", brings home, with infectious learning, the many self-deceptions behind our reverence for freedom
Paul Binding, TLS