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In BLACK MASS, the provocative and nihilistic political philosopher John Gray continues his relentless assault on the underlying fallacies of political thinking on both the left and the right ends of the spectrum. The primary tenant of his new book is that belief in a progressive concept of human civilization--the idea that humanity is moving towards some idealized utopian existence--is a mere delusion. Both scientific and religious thinking, Gray argues, are tainted by this optimism, which results in foolish decisions by both religious zealots (George W. Bush, Islamic fundamentalists, etc.) and leftist dreamers. For some, BLACK MASS will be a bracing and invigorating attack on conventional thinking; for others it will read merely as an attack on hope itself.
| Size | | Length: | 242 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 17.3 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Ahead of the zeitgeist."
(11/25/2007)
"If there's a prize for two books by a humanist intellectual that contain the most false generalizations, the most blithe offenses against what we mean by conceptual words--dub it the 'Mad Booker'--it goes to STRAW DOGS...and BLACK MASS, both recently published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, perhaps as a kind of Dada stunt."
(01/18/2008)
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