28062 How can we explain the origins of the great


WAVE
OF PARANOID
HATREDS THAT SEEM
INESCAPABLE IN OUR CLOSE-KNIT
WORLD - from American shooters &
ISIS to dj Donald John TRUMP, from a rise
in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism
& 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, & 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, & 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 wide embrace of mass politics & technology & the pursuit of wealth & 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 & comparisons, AGE OF ANGER is a book of immense urgency & profound argument.
It is a history of our present predicament unlike any other. PM is the author of FROM THE RUINS OF EMPIRE &
several other books. He is a columnist for BLOOMBERG VIEW & THE NEW YORK TIMES
BOOK REVIEW, & he writes regularly for THE GUARDIAN, the
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, & THE NEW YORKER.
A fellow of the ROYAL SOCIETY OF
LITERATURE, he lives
in London!

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