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Mishra, Pankaj.
Subjects
Politics and culture.
World politics -- To 1900.
World politics -- 1989-
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization, Modern -- Political aspects.
Civilization, Modern -- Social aspects.
Civilization, Western.
Anger -- Political aspects -- History.
Social change -- Political aspects -- History.
Youth -- Political activity -- History.
Nationalism -- History.
Terrorism -- History.
Religion and politics -- History.
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Mishra, Pankaj.
Politics and culture.
World politics -- To 1900.
World politics -- 1989-
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization, Modern -- Political aspects.
Civilization, Modern -- Social aspects.
Civilization, Western.
Anger -- Political aspects -- History.
Social change -- Political aspects -- History.
Youth -- Political activity -- History.
Nationalism -- History.
Terrorism -- History.
Religion and politics -- History.
MARC Display
Age
of
anger
: a
history
of the
present
/ Pankaj Mishra.
by
Mishra, Pankaj.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Call #:
909.8 M678a
Subjects
Politics and culture.
World politics -- To 1900.
World politics -- 1989-
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization, Modern -- Political aspects.
Civilization, Modern -- Social aspects.
Civilization, Western.
Anger
-- Political aspects --
History
.
Social change -- Political aspects --
History
.
Youth -- Political activity --
History
.
Nationalism --
History
.
Terrorism --
History
.
Religion and politics --
History
.
ISBN:
9780374274788 (hc.)
Edition:
First American edition.
Description:
ix, 406 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Originally published in 2017 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-374) and index.
Contents:
Prologue: forgotten conjunctures -- Clearing a space:
history
's winners and their illusions -- Loving oneself through others: progress and its contradictions -- Losing my religion: Islam, secularism and revolution -- Regaining my religion: I. Nationalism unbound; II. Messianic visions -- Finding true freedom and equality: the heritage of Nihilism -- Epilogue: finding reality.
Summary:
"The hidden
history
of our current global crisis. How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? Pankaj Mishra casts his gaze back to the eighteenth century, before leading us to the
present
. He shows that as the world became modern those who were unable to fulfill its promises - freedom, stability and prosperity - were increasingly susceptible to demagogues. The many who came late to this new world or were left, or pushed, behind, reacted in horrifyingly similar ways: intense hatred of invented enemies, attempts to re-create an imaginary golden
age
, and self-empowerment through spectacular violence. It was from among the ranks of the disaffected that the militants of the 19th century arose - angry young men who became cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic revolutionaries in Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, and anarchist terrorists internationally. Today, just as then, the wider embrace of mass politics, technology, and the pursuit of wealth and individualism has cast many more billions adrift in a literally demoralized world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity - with the same terrible results. A book of immense urgency and profound argument. A
history
of our
present
predicament unlike any other. Pankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire. He is a columnist at Bloomberg View and the New York Times Book Review, and writes regularly for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New Yorker. He lives in London"-- Provided by publisher.
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