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Age of Anger

Age of Anger

Age of Anger

Editorial: Penguin Books LTD

Pàgines: 406

Any: 2018

EAN: 9780141984087

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Sobre el libro Age of Anger de Pankaj Mishra publicado por Penguin Books LTD al 2018:

How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American ´shooters´ and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and 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 fulfil its promises - freedom, stability and prosperity - were increasingly susceptible to demagogues. 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 wider embrace of mass politics, technology, and the pursuit of wealth and individualism has cast many more billions adrift in a literally demoralized world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity - with the same terrible results. Making startling connections and comparisons, Age of Anger is a book of immense urgency and profound argument. It is a history of our present predicament unlike any other.

Pankaj Mishra

Sobre Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra (Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, l´Índia, 1969) és assagista i novel·lista. Es va graduar en la Universitat de Allahabad i, més endavant, es va doctorar en Literatura Anglesa per la Universitat Jawaharlal Nehru de Nova Delhi. És membre de la Royal Society of Literature i en 2014, va rebre el premi literari Windham-Campbell de la Universitat de Yale. Actualment col·labora en The New Yorker, London Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review i The Guardian, entre altres. Una extensa...

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