Name: Bland Fanatics
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Author: Pankaj Mishra
ISBN: 9781250800183

Type

Physical Book

Author

Pankaj Mishra

Publisher

Picador

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20x12.4x1.6 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781250800183

Synopsis "Bland Fanatics "

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.

Pankaj Mishra

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Pankaj Mishra (Paṅkaja Miśrā; Jhansi, 1969) is an Indian essayist and novelist. Mishra graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Allahabad University before earning his Master's degree in English Literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

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