Being set in the 1400s or 1500s in Western Europe, Muir’s classical approach completely captures the essence of this era. Her style isn’t what you normally see in comics, and that’s perfect for this story. The next thing that jumps out is Jodie Muir’s art. There’s more to it than the twists, but if there’s one thing that will stick with readers, it’s the major surprises they get throughout this story. This is that rarest of things, a necessary book.Black Mass Rising is one of those books that’s tough to talk about without getting into spoilers. In Black Mass, Gray dissects the greatest of all political delusions, utopianism, and maps the way in which, against all expectations it has migrated from left to right, from communism to neo-conservatism. Gray's work has always been about separating reality and delusion. It is at once a reproof and an antidote to the reigning wishful thinking that makes Voltaire's Dr. “When the fashionable pundits of the age of globalization are as forgotten as those who, in the run-up to World War I, predicted globalization had rendered war obsolete, John Gray's work will still matter. Gray reminds us about more ancient and truthful myths, which predicted that our reckless pursuit of knowledge and power would lead to disaster.” - Peter Conrad, The Observer “Gray is right to scoff at the misplaced faith in progress propounded by Enlightenment philosophers. Yet the right expression of even the bleakest truths is always invigorating, and any half-sensible reader will come away from the book soberer and even, perhaps, wiser.” - John Banville, The Guardian
It is not a cheering work, to say the least, and Gray's conclusions, though never exaggerated or overstated, are bleak. is a limpidly argued and finely written synthesis of Gray's thinking over the decade or so since False Dawn, his highly regarded and influential study of globalisation. Black Mass is a truly frightening and challenging work by one of Britain's leading political thinkers. Far from having shaken off discredited ideology, Gray suggests, we are more than ever in its clutches. Bush and Tony Blair, and indeed coming to define the political center.
And most urgently, he describes how utopian politics have moved from the extremes of the political spectrum into mainstream politics, dominating the administrations of both George W. He charts the history of utopianism, from the Reformation through the French Revolution and into the present. In Black Mass, celebrated philosopher and critic John Gray explains how utopian ideals have taken on a dangerous significance in the hands of right-wing conservatives and religious zealots. But just as damaging has been the rise in the West of a belief that a single model of political behavior will become a worldwide norm and that, if necessary, it will be enforced at gunpoint. The beginning of the twenty-first century has rudely disposed of such ideas-most obviously through 9/11and its aftermath. For the decade that followed the end of the cold war, the world was lulled into a sense that a consumerist, globalized, peaceful future beckoned.
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