Age of anger

Description:

From Goodreads (edited by me though): **One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis** Modernity, secularism, development, and progress have long been viewed by the powerful few as benign ideals for the many. Today, however, botched experiments in nation-building, democracy, industrialization, and urbanization visibly scar much of the world. As once happened in Europe, the wider embrace of revolutionary politics, mass movements, technology, the pursuit of wealth, and individualism has cast billions adrift in a literally demoralized world. It was from among the ranks of the disaffected and the spiritually disorientated, that the militants of the nineteenth century arose—angry young men who became cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic revolutionaries in Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, and anarchist terrorists internationally. Many more people today, unable to fulfill the promises—freedom, stability, and prosperity—of a globalized economy, are increasingly susceptible to demagogues and their simplifications. A common reaction among them is intense hatred of supposed villains, the invention of enemies, attempts to recapture a lost golden age, unfocused fury and self-empowerment through spectacular violence. In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra explores the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world—from American “shooters” and ISIS (ISIL) to Trump, Modi, and racism and misogyny on social media.

subjects: HISTORY,  World,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  General,  Political aspects of Anger,  Modern,  21st Century,  Modern Civilization,  Social change,  Youth,  Political aspects of Social change,  Religion and politics,  World politics,  Western Civilization,  Anger,  Terrorism,  Nationalism,  Political activity,  History, modern, 21st century,  East and west,  World politics, 21st century,  Political culture,  Power (social sciences),  Paranoia,  New York Times reviewed,  HISTORY / World,  HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century,  POLITICAL SCIENCE / General,  World politics -- To 1900,  World politics -- 1989-,  Civilization, Modern,  Civilization, Western,  Anger -- Political aspects -- History,  Social change -- Political aspects -- History,  Youth -- Political activity -- History,  Nationalism -- History,  Terrorism -- History,  Religion and politics -- History,  History, modern,  Political aspects

Times: To 1900,  1989-,  19th century,  20th century,  21st century,  18th century