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| Publisher | Juggernaut |
| ISBN 13 | 9789386228116 |
| Author | Pankaj Mishra |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | Why do young men and women from the West join an extremist organization like ISIS? Why are we seeing the rise of aggressive right-wing politics in countries such as India, Turkey and USA, the expansion of Islamist terror, massacres in Western metropolises, wars in the Middle East? And in what way is the politics of anger and violence connected? In this outstanding book, Pankaj Mishra argues that the roots of our age of anger lie in the great economic and political revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Europe and the traumatic social and political changes they brought. Boldly argued and with a canvas that stretches from Savarkar in India to Rousseau in France, Age of Anger is a must-read to understand the world today. |
| Editorial Review | “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” - Boyd Tonkin, Newsweek.“Richly learned and usefully subversive” - John Gray, Literary Review.“A bowel-churning kick in the guts . . . [Pankaj Mishra’s] vision is unusually broad, accommodating and resistant to categorisation. It is the kind of vision the world needs right now . . . Age of Anger is vitally germane to the global expressions of discontent that we are now witnessing” - Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial Times.“[An] ambitious world history of anti-progressive backlash” - New York.“A disturbing but imperatively urgent analysis” - Bryce Christensen, Booklist (starred review).“A probing, well-informed investigation of global unrest calling for ‘truly transformative thinking’ about humanity’s future” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review).“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”- Christopher Bray, The Tablet.“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” - Jonathan Steinberg, The Spectator.“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” - Justin E.H. Smith, Harper’s.“Incisive and scary.. a wake-up call” - Nick Fraser, Observer.An impressively probing and timely work…Highly engaging” - Publishers Weekly (starred review). |
| About the Author | Pankaj Mishra is the acclaimed author of six books of fiction and non-fiction including, most recently, From the Ruins of Empire. He writes frequently for the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Guardian, New Yorker, London Review of Books, Bloomberg View, among other American, British and Indian publications. |
| Format | Paperback |
| Publication Date | 25/01/2017 |
| Number of Pages | 432 |
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