2887810Mishra's book 'age of anger' takes a very

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DIFFERENT VIEW OF A UNIVERSAL CRISIS,
SHOFTING THE PREPOSTEROUSLY HEAVY BURDEN OF EXPLANATION
FROM ISLAM AND RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM. IT ARGUES THAT THE UNPRECEDENTED POLITICAL,
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DISORDER THAT ACCOMPANIED THE RISE OF THE INDUSTRIAL CAPITALIST
ECONOMY IN 19TH-CENTURY EUROPE, AND LED TO WORLD WARS, TOTALITARIAN REGIMES AND ALL
GENOCIDE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY, IS NOW INFECTING MUCH VASTER REGIONS &
BIGGER POPULATIONS: thàt, first exposed to modernity through European imperialism, large parts of Asia
& Africa are now plunging deeper into the West's own fateful experience òf that modernity!

The scope of thìs universal crisis is much broader than the issue of terrorism or violence. Those routinely
evoking a worldwide clash of civilizations in which Islam is pitted against the West, & religion against reason,
are not able to explain many political, social & environmental ills?! And even the exponents of the 'CLASH' thesis
may find it more illuminating to recognize, underneath the layer of quasi-religious rhetoric, the deep intellectual
& psycho-logical affinities that the gaudily Islamic aficionados of ISIS's Caliphate share with D'Annunzio & many
other equally flamboyant secular radicals in the 19th & early 20th centuries: the aesthetes who glorified war,
misogyny & pyromania; the very fanatic agressive conservative nationalists who preferred to accuse
Jews & liberals of rootless cosmopolitanism & celebrated extremely irrational violence;
& the nihilists, anarchists & terrorists who flourished in almost every continent
against a background of cosy political-financial alliances, totally devastating
economic crisis & very obscene inequalities.
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