Al Qaida and what it means to be modern

Gray pull up by the roots the myth that the human condition can be remade by science and political engineering. He describes with mordant irony the rise of positivits, the strange sect that put science and technology at the centre of a religion of humanity. Through their influence on a economics, politicians and biologists, they still powerfully affect the way we think. Gray looks at the various attemps to remake humanity, from the Bolshevik and Nazi disasters to the utopian experiments of modern radical Islam and the dreamsof the prophets of globlization.