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BLACK MASS: APOCALYPTIC RELIGION AND THE DEATH OF UTOPIA
John Gray
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Description for BLACK MASS: APOCALYPTIC RELIGION AND THE DEATH OF UTOPIA
Paperback. Tears down the religious, political and secular beliefs that we insist are fundamental to human project. This title examines interaction of terrorism, declining world resources, human myths of redemption and a flawed belief in Western democracy, and shows us how a misplaced faith in our ability to improve the world has actually made it far worse. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HRQM; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 260.
A prophetic warning against the foolishness of crusades, John Gray's Black Mass challenges our belief in human progress.
Our conventional view of history is wrong. It is founded on a pernicious myth of an achievable utopia that in the last century alone caused the murder of tens of millions.
In Black Mass John Gray tears down the religious, political and secular beliefs that we insist are fundamental to the human project, examines the interaction of terrorism, declining world resources, environmental change, human myths of redemption and a flawed belief in Western democracy, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141025988
SKU
V9780141025988
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-84
About John Gray
John Gray’s most recent books are Straw Dogs (‘That rarest of things, a contemporary work of philosophy, wholly accessible and profoundly relevant to the rapidly evolving world’ - Will Self), Al-Qaeda and What It Means To Be Modern (‘The most arresting account I have read of our current crisis’, Ian McEwan) and Heresies.
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