John Gray book Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
Post-Apocalypse: After Secularism (pp. 267-8)
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (2007)
“Rationalism… is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.”
— Paul Karl Feyerabend, book Against Method
Pg 227.
Against Method (1975)
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