TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mishra,Pankaj
TI  - Bland fanatics: liberals, the West and the afterlives of empires 
SN  - 9781788737340 (pbk.) :
AV  - JC574 
U1  - 320.513 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Verso
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Extremists
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - East and West
KW  - Politics and Government
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Politics & government
KW  - thema
KW  - Literary essays
KW  - Political science & theory
KW  - History of ideas
KW  - Colonialism & imperialism
N2  - 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
ER  -