{"id":1278,"date":"2013-02-28T17:32:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2020-07-27T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T20:56:13","slug":"the-silence-of-animals-lse-literary-fesitval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/the-silence-of-animals-lse-literary-fesitval\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silence of Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>John Gray\/\u00a0George Gaskell<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to the recording <a href=\"http:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_publiclecturesandevents\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20130228_1900_theSilenceOfAnimals.mp3\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Writers are mesmerised by forms of human extremity: experiences on the outer edge of the possible, or which tip into fantasy and myth.\u00a0John Gray\u00a0explores the conundrum of our existence, which we decorate with countless myths and ideas to avoid acknowledging that we too are animals, separated from the others perhaps only by our self-conceit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaker<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/johngray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Gray<\/a><br \/>\nEmeritus Professor of European Thought, LSE &amp; Author,\u00a0<em>The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/Methodology\/People\/Academic-Staff\/George-Gaskell\/George-Gaskell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Gaskell<\/a><br \/>\nPro-Director of LSE &amp; Professor of Social Psychology<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on 28 February 2013 at the LSE as part of the LSE Literary Festival<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gray\/\u00a0George Gaskell &nbsp; Listen to the recording here &nbsp; Writers are mesmerised by forms of human extremity: experiences on the outer edge of the possible, or which tip into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/the-silence-of-animals-lse-literary-fesitval\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[19,71],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ethics","tag-philosophyandliterature"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/interview-wide2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-kC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12939,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/12939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}