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Mishra, Pankaj.
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Liberalism.
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Right and left (Political science)
Postcolonialism.
East and West.
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Mishra, Pankaj.
Liberalism.
Extremists.
Ideology.
Right and left (Political science)
Postcolonialism.
East and West.
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Bland fanatics : liberals, race, and empire / Pankaj Mishra.
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Mishra, Pankaj.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Call #:
320.513 M678b
Subjects
Liberalism.
Extremists
.
Ideology.
Right and left (Political science)
Postcolonialism.
East and West.
ISBN:
9780374293314
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
218 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in 2020 by Verso, Great Britain.
Includes index.
Contents:
Watch this man -- The culture of fear -- The religion of Whiteness -- The personal as political -- The man of fourteen points -- Bland fanatics -- The age of the crisis of man -- Free markets and Social Darwinism in Mumbai -- The lure of fascist mysticism -- What is great about ourselves -- Why do White people like what I write? -- The mask it wears -- The final religion -- Bumbling chumocrats -- The Economist and liberalism -- England's last roar.
Summary:
"In America and in England, faltering economies at home and failed wars abroad have generated a political and intellectual hysteria. It is a derangement manifested in a number of ways: nostalgia for imperialism, xenophobic paranoia, and denunciations of an allegedly intolerant left. These symptoms can be found even among the most informed of Anglo-America.... Pankaj Mishra examines the politics and culture of this hysteria, challenging the dominant establishment discourses of our times. In essays that grapple with the meaning and content of Anglo-American liberalism and its relations with colonialism, the global South, Islam, and "humanitarian" war, Mishra confronts writers such as Jordan Peterson, Niall Ferguson, and Salman Rushdie. He describes the doubling down of an intelligentsia against a background of weakening Anglo-American hegemony, and he explores the commitments of Ta-Nehisi Coates and the ideological determinations of The Economist. These essays provide a vantage point from which to understand the current crisis and its deep origins."--from publisher.
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