Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire

A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of...
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Author: Pankaj Mishra
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Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire by Mishra, Pankaj

Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire

CHF 25.76

Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire

CHF 25.76
Author: Pankaj Mishra
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public intellectuals of our time.

In America and in England, faltering economies at home and failed wars abroad have generated a political and intellectual hysteria. It is a derangement manifested in a number of ways: nostalgia for imperialism, xenophobic paranoia, and denunciations of an allegedly intolerant left. These symptoms can be found even among the most informed of Anglo-America.

In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines the politics and culture of this hysteria, challenging the dominant establishment discourses of our times. In essays that grapple with the meaning and content of Anglo-American liberalism and its relations with colonialism, the global South, Islam, and "humanitarian" war, Mishra confronts writers such as Jordan Peterson, Niall Ferguson, and Salman Rushdie. He describes the doubling down of an intelligentsia against a background of weakening Anglo-American hegemony, and he explores the commitments of Ta-Nehisi Coates and the ideological determinations of The Economist. These essays provide a vantage point from which to understand the current crisis and its deep origins.

Author: Pankaj Mishra
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 10/05/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.87h x 4.88w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781250800183

About the Author
Pankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire, Age of Anger, and several other books. He is a columnist at Bloomberg View and writes regularly for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London

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