LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE
YEAR 2017 'The kind of vision the world needs right now...Pankaj
Mishra shouldn't stop thinking' Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial
Times 'This is the most astonishing, convincing, and disturbing
book I've read in years' Joe Sacco 'Urgent, profound and
extraordinarily timely' John Banville 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. The many who came late to this new world or were
left, or pushed, behind, reacted in horrifyingly similar ways:
intense hatred of invented enemies, attempts to re-create an
imaginary golden age, and self-empowerment through spectacular
violence. 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 millions 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.
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