Considering the support behind Brexit and Donald Trump’s
‘America first’ policies, this book challenges the idea that
they are motivated solely by fear and instead looks at the hope and
promises that drive these renewed forms of nationalism. Addressing
these neglected motivations within contemporary populism, Michael
Mack explores how our current sense of disappointment with our
ecological, economic and political state of affairs partakes of a
history of failed promises that goes back to the inception of
modernity; namely, to Spinoza’s radical enlightenment of
diversity and equality. Through this innovative approach, Spinoza
emerges less as a single isolated figure and more as a sign for an
intellectual constellation of thinkers and writers who – from the
romantics to contemporary theory and literature – have introduced
various shifts in the way we see humanity as being limited and
prone to disappointment. Combining intellectual history with
literary and scientific theory, the book traces the collapse of
traditional values and orders from Spinoza to Nietzsche and then to
the literary modernism of Joseph Conrad and postmodernism of Philip
Roth and Thomas Pynchon.
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