Age of Anger

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A History of the Present Czech Karolinum
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One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of
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our current global crisis
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The attempt to Westernize, modernize, or secularize the non-West was long
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viewed benignly as a process of “development and progress.” Today, Editore
however, botched experiments in Western-style politics, military
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intervention, and economic engineering visibly scar much of the non-
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Western world. The wider embrace of Western innovations―revolutionary
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politics, mass movements, technology, the pursuit of wealth and
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individualism―has caused an extensive destruction of old social and moral
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bonds. The radical disruption, which includes the remaking of life’s meaning
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and goals, has cast billions adrift in a literally demoralized world, uprooted
from tradition but still far from modernity.
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Unable to fulfill the promises―stability and prosperity―of the global m Unavailable
capitalist economy, and culturally and spiritually disoriented, many men and
women are increasingly susceptible to demagogues and other dangerous
simplifiers. 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 nihilistic violence. These
are all phenomena familiar in Europe and the United States, though
obscured for a while by their general post-1945 experience of relative
affluence and peace. They have now become inescapable in our
interconnected and profoundly unequal world.

Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra’s remarkable new book, allows us at last to

come to grips with how we can understand societies that are violently adrift.