A collection of short essays by Gray. You can get a sense of the main themes or ideas he explores - the illusion of modernity; the social, political and economic fantasies of the "modern" era; progress and technology as religious doctrine in our modern time; the christian roots to much of what defines the ideology of modernity in the west. The essays can be quite biting and sharp in their focus. It is to the best book to get an overview of his ideas, however - False Dawn and The Silence of Animals both offer a more coherent view of his ideas. Still worth reading, although the sections dealing with politics of the Blair Bush era are now dated - though it would be interesting to spend some time looking at Gray's predictions and compare them to what really happened.
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