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CROSSING DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES, THIS BOOK (age of anger/tijd van woede) WILL BE JUSTIFIED, I (pankaj mishra) HOPE, BY THE DEGREE TO WHICH IT CLARIFIES THE EXTRAORDINARY GLOBAL UPHEAVALS THAT HAVE PROVOKED ITS WRITING... HERE I SHOULD DISCARD THE MANDATORY STANCE OF AUTHORIAL OBJECTIVITY, AND DECLARE MY PREJUDICES & INFLUENCES - AT LEAST THOSE I AM AWARE OF. I GREW UP IN SEMI-RURAL PARTS OF INDIA, WITH PARENTS WHOSE OWN SENSIBILITIES SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN DECISIVELY SHAPED BY THEIR UPBRINGING IN A PRE-MODERN WORLD OF MYTH, RELIGION AND CUSTOM! I CAN ATTEST THROUGH MY OWN KNOWLEDGE OF THESE LIVES TO THE RUPTURES IN LIVED EXPERIENCE AND HISTORICAL CONTINUITY, THE EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORIENTATIONS, AND THE ABRASION OF NERVES AND SENSIBILITY THAT HAVE MADE THE PASSAGE TO MODERNITY SO ARDUOUS FOR MOST PEOPLE? I KNOW, TOO, HOW THEIR IDENTITIES, WHILE OSTENSIBLY REFLECTING SPECIFIC SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE, FREQUENTLY EXCEED THEM, & ARE FAR FROM BEING SELF-CONSISTENT. Although my earliest readings were in Indian classical literature and philosophy, and I never cease to marvel at Buddhism's subtle ana-lysis of human experience, my intellectual formation has been largely European and American. I feel unqualified regard for a figure like Montaigne, who recognized the diversity of human cultures and the acute self-divisions of individual selves, and commended humility, self-restraint and compassion before the intractable facts of human existence. But I find myself drawn most to German, Italian, Eastern European and Russian writers and thinkers! This has much to do with my upbringing in a country that, like Germany once, Russia and much of the world today, is a latecomer to modernity; and whose own nationalists, long accused of being perpetual laggards and weak-lings, now strive to fabricate a proud New Hindu. It cannot seem coincidental to me that some of the most acute witnesses of the modern era were Germans, who, galvanized by their country's fraught attempts to match France and Britain, gave modern thought its dominant idioms and themes. Johann Gottlieb Fichte was socialisten & autarkisten ver vooruit door al in 1800 aan te dringen op een zelf voorzienende planeconomie; hij borduurde er theoretisch op voort met 'n wij-tegen-hen-nationalisme. Marx formuleerde zijn ambitieuze metafysische stelsel & programma voor de revolutie voor 't eerst toen hij zijn 'schaamte' over de 'middeleeuwse' achterlijkheid van Duitsland probeerde te overwinnen. Nietzsche gebruikte zijn afkeer van de zelfverheffing i/d Duitse politiek & cultuur voor zijn ideeën over ressentiment. Max Weber, 'n nationalist die met lede ogen de opmars van een onpersoonlijke bureaucratische macht in zijn indus-trialiserende land aanzag, kwam tot zijn bijna wanhopige diagnose v/d modern wereld als 'ijzeren kooi' waaruit alleen 'n charismatische leider 'n úitweg kòn bíeden. Mòr ziet de schrijvers & hun boeken als evenzovele spiegels die ons kunnen helpen zelf te leren reflecteren.
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