A compelling, powerful argument about the roots of current global disorder.
Pankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire and several other books. He is a columnist at Bloomberg View and the New York Times Book Review, 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.
Urgent, profound and extraordinarily timely
*John Banville*
This is the most astonishing, convincing, and disturbing book I've
read in years
*Joe Sacco*
Incisive and scary.. a wake-up call
*Guardian*
Far from reassuring... his vision is unusually broad, accommodating
and resistant to categorisation. It is the kind of vision the world
needs right now...Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking.
*Financial Times*
This is a framework that pushes aside conventional, familiar
divisions of left and right to focus on the profound sense of
dislocation and alienation that spawned (and still spawns)
movements ranging from fascism to anarchism to nihilism...a short
book into which a lot of intellectual history has been packed.
*Slate*
Stimulating... thought-provoking
*Guardian*
A valuable book. Mishra's ideas are bold and initially discomfiting
- it's a challenge to look over the head of the latest terrorist
and try to dispassionately trace his rage back to Voltaire - but
it's undeniably good to stretch intellectual muscles and test your
own prejudices. Mishra invites us to hear the ugly, muffled shouts
beneath the "drumbeat" of Western civilisation.
*Sunday Herald*
Mishra reads like a brilliant autodidact, putting to shame the many
students who dutifully did the reading for their classes but missed
the incandescent fire and penetrating insight in canonical texts...
no one has discerned better than Mishra just how far we still are
from the top.
*New Republic*
Around the world, both East and West, the insurrectionary fury of
militants, zealots and populists has overturned the post-Cold-War
global consensus. Where does their rage come from, and where will
it end? One of the sharpest cultural critics and political analysts
releases his landmark "history of the present
*Newsweek*
An original attempt to explain today's paranoid
hatreds...Iconoclastic...Mr. Mishra shocks on many levels.
*Economist*
Along with quotations from Voltaire, Rousseau, and other familiar
figures of Western Civ, Age of Anger includes observations from
Iranian, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and other nations' scholars;
their perspectives complement Mishra's deep understanding of global
tensions....In probing for the wellspring of today's anger he hits
on something real
*Bloomberg Businessweek*
Provocative...We'll need new philosophical frameworks to understand
the phenomenon of political anger in a global perspective; what's
fascinating about Mishra's novel reading is that it draws on
familiar philosophical and literary touchstones while turning them
on their head...A brilliant work
*Bookforum*
A disturbing but imperatively urgent analysis
*Booklist*
A probing, well-informed investigation of global unrest calling for
'truly transformative thinking' about humanity's future
*Kirkus Reviews*
Sensitive and illuminating....Makes a powerful case for the
influence of a certain group of anti-rational and anti-commercial
ideas which have influenced our world.,..Mishra's contribution is
to show us how these ideas have become 'viral' and what that means
for all of us.
*The Spectator*
Incisive...Age of Anger, which was completed after the Brexit vote
but before Trump's victory, reminds us that the dialectical
movement between these two poles - between a desire to be oneself
and a desire to belong to something larger than oneself - has been
a feature of Western political life since the Enlightenment
*Harper’s*
Pankaj Mishra's Age of Anger...exemplifies his characteristic
eloquence and erudition...Leaders who are struggling to process the
present backlash against core aspects of globalization would do
well to heed Mishra's plea to "remember the irreducible human
being, her or his fears, desires, and resentments."
*The National Interest*
An impressively probing and timely work...Highly engaging
*Publishers Weekly*
Scintillating...Age of Anger looks an awful lot like a masterwork.
We're only a few weeks into 2017, but one of the books of the year
is already here
*The Tablet*
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