Bland fanatics : liberals, the West and the afterlives of empires / Pankaj Mishra.
Publisher: London : Verso, 2021Description: 224 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0048010077ISBN: 9781788737340 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Liberalism | Extremists | Postcolonialism | East and West | Politics and Government | Politics & government | Literary essays | Political science & theory | History of ideas | Colonialism & imperialismDDC classification: 320.513 LOC classification: JC574Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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.
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