Bland Fanatics

Liberals, Race and Empire

Pankaj Mishra (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2021
Verso Books (Verlag)
9781788737340 (ISBN)

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One of the most acclaimed essayists writing today on the political hysteria plaguing the West

Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes-that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines this hysteria and its fantasists, taking on its arguments and the atmosphere in which it has festered and become influential. In essays that grapple with colonialism, human rights, and the doubling down of liberalism against a background of faltering economies and weakening Anglo-American hegemony, Mishra confronts writers from Jordan Peterson and Niall Ferguson to Salman Rushdie and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. With a newly written introduction, these essays provide a vantage point from which to look seriously at the current crisis.

Pankaj Mishra is the author of numerous books, most recently The Age of Anger: A History of the Present (2017). He writes literary and political essays for the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Guardian, New Yorker, London Review of Books, and Bloomberg View, among other American, British, and Indian publications. His work has also appeared in Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Time, The Independent, Granta, The Nation, n+1, Poetry, Common Knowledge, Outlook, and Harper's.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	212 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-13	9781788737340 / 9781788737340
Zustand	Neuware