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Black Mass

John Gray

2007256 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2007
first published
  • 2008Doubleday Canada · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780385662666
  • 2008Penguin Books, Limited · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780141025988
  • 2007Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780374105983

Utopian ideologies of the last century rejected traditional faiths and claimed to be based in science. They were actually secular versions of the myth of Apocalypse - the belief in a world-changing event that brings history, with all its conflicts, to an end. This text argues that the death of Utopia does not mean peace.

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