Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
Autor John Grayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 apr 2008
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.
InBlack MassJohn 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 shows us how a misplaced faith in our ability to improve the world has actually made it far worse.
'Brilliant, frightening, devastating'
John Banville,Guardian
'A brilliant polemic ... Gray's most powerful argument yet'
J.G. Ballard,Guardian, Books of the Year
'Causes vertigo when it does not cause outrage'
Sunday Times
'Exhilarating, invigorating'
Literary Review
'Savage. Gray raises profound and valid doubts about the conventional "plot" of modern history'
Financial Times
'A load of bollocks ... could hardly be more bonkers if it was crawling with lizards'
Sunday Telegraph
John Gray has been Professor of Politics at Oxford University, Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale and Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. His books includeFalse Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism,Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other AnimalsandThe Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death. His selected writings,Gray's Anatomy, was published in 2009.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141025988
ISBN-10: 0141025980
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141025980
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
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.
Descriere
Our conventional view of history and human progress 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 and shows us how a misplaced faith in our ability to improve the world has actually made it far worse.