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Age of Anger: INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Autor Pankaj Mishra
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mar 2018
One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis.

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
Named a Best Book of the Year by Slate and NPR
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 Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting 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 enjoy its promises--of 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: with 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 nineteenth 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 wide embrace of mass politics and technology and the pursuit of wealth and individualism have cast many more billions adrift in a demoralized world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity--with the same terrible results. Making startling connections and comparisons, Age of Anger is a book of immense urgency and profound argument. It is a history of our present predicament unlike any other.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250159304
ISBN-10: 125015930X
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 136 x 208 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: PICADOR
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Pankaj Mishra

Cuprins

Preface

1. Prologue: Forgotten Conjunctures
2. Clearing a Space: History's Winners and Their Illusions
3. Loving Oneself Through Others: Progress and Its Contradictions
4. Losing My Religion: Islam, Secularism and Revolution
5. Regaining My Religion: I. Nationalism Unbound; II. Messianic Visions
6. Finding True Freedom and Equality: The Heritage of Nihilism
7. Epilogue: Finding Reality

Bibliographic Essay
Acknowledgements
Index

Recenzii

Scintillating...Age of Anger looks an awful lot like a masterwork. We're only a few weeks into 2017, but one of the books of the year is already here
This is the most astonishing, convincing, and disturbing book I've read in years
Incisive and scary.. a wake-up call
Far from reassuring... his vision is unusually broad, accommodating and resistant to categorisation. It is the kind of vision the world needs right now...Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking.
This is a framework that pushes aside conventional, familiar divisions of left and right to focus on the profound sense of dislocation and alienation that spawned (and still spawns) movements ranging from fascism to anarchism to nihilism...a short book into which a lot of intellectual history has been packed.
Stimulating... thought-provoking
A valuable book. Mishra's ideas are bold and initially discomfiting - it's a challenge to look over the head of the latest terrorist and try to dispassionately trace his rage back to Voltaire - but it's undeniably good to stretch intellectual muscles and test your own prejudices. Mishra invites us to hear the ugly, muffled shouts beneath the "drumbeat" of Western civilisation.
Mishra reads like a brilliant autodidact, putting to shame the many students who dutifully did the reading for their classes but missed the incandescent fire and penetrating insight in canonical texts... no one has discerned better than Mishra just how far we still are from the top.
Around the world, both East and West, the insurrectionary fury of militants, zealots and populists has overturned the post-Cold-War global consensus. Where does their rage come from, and where will it end? One of the sharpest cultural critics and political analysts releases his landmark "history of the present
An original attempt to explain today's paranoid hatreds...Iconoclastic...Mr. Mishra shocks on many levels.
Along with quotations from Voltaire, Rousseau, and other familiar figures of Western Civ,Age of Angerincludes observations from Iranian, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and other nations' scholars; their perspectives complement Mishra's deep understanding of global tensions....In probing for the wellspring of today's anger he hits on something real
Provocative...We'll need new philosophical frameworks to understand the phenomenon of political anger in a global perspective; what's fascinating about Mishra's novel reading is that it draws on familiar philosophical and literary touchstones while turning them on their head...A brilliant work
A disturbing but imperatively urgent analysis
A probing, well-informed investigation of global unrest calling for 'truly transformative thinking' about humanity's future
Sensitive and illuminating....Makes a powerful case for the influence of a certain group of anti-rational and anti-commercial ideas which have influenced our world.,..Mishra's contribution is to show us how these ideas have become 'viral' and what that means for all of us.
Incisive...Age of Anger,which was completed after the Brexit vote but before Trump's victory, reminds us that the dialectical movement between these two poles - between a desire to be oneself and a desire to belong to something larger than oneself - has been a feature of Western political life since the Enlightenment
Pankaj Mishra'sAge of Anger...exemplifies his characteristic eloquence and erudition...Leaders who are struggling to process the present backlash against core aspects of globalization would do well to heed Mishra's plea to "remember the irreducible human being, her or his fears, desires, and resentments."
An impressively probing and timely work...Highly engaging

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'Urgent, profound and extraordinarily timely' John Banville
'The rage and confusion of the modern world have their roots in the Enlightenment and the myth of progress, argues this scintillating study ... Age of Anger looks an awful lot like a masterwork' Christopher Bray, The Tablet
'Provocative and terrifically learned ... clever, thrilling ... consistently revelatory' Charles King, The Times Literary Supplement
'Mishra's ideas are bold and initially discomfiting ... invites us to hear the ugly, muffled shouts beneath the "drumbeat" of Western civilisation' Julie McDowall, Sunday Herald
'Iconoclastic ... Mishra shocks on many levels ... shows how violence, nihilism and hatred of "other" have ample precedents among Western liberalism's 19th and 20th century opponents, whether revolutionaries, anarchists or artists' Economist


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'The kind of vision the world needs right now...Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking' Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial Times

'This is the most astonishing, convincing, and disturbing book I've read in years' Joe Sacco

'Urgent, profound and extraordinarily timely' John Banville
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? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting 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 fulfil 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 millions adrift in a literally demoralized world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity - with the same terrible results
Making startling connections and comparisons, Age of Anger is a book of immense urgency and profound argument. It is a history of our present predicament unlike any other.