The Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia.(Book review)

Canadian Journal of History | March 22, 2009| | Copyright

The Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, by John Gray. Toronto, Doubleday Canada, 2007. xiv, 242 pp. $29.95 Cdn (cloth), $17.95 Cdn (paper).

Most historians concentrate on one country or one phenomenon, but John Gray sweeps across the world from the Middle Ages to the present, diagnosing along the way why humans have often gone astray. In the process, he gives us not an empirical analysis, but a bold philosophy of history rivaling those of Hegel, Marx, Spengler, Toynbee, or Fukuyama. His central argument is that, since the messianic prophets of ...

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