{"product_id":"age-of-anger-pankaj-mishra","title":"Age of Anger (Pankaj Mishra)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW STATESMAN\u003c\/i\u003e BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The kind of vision the world needs right now...Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking' Christopher de Bellaigue, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is the most astonishing, convincing, and disturbing book I've read in years' Joe Sacco\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Urgent, profound and extraordinarily timely' John Banville\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In \u003ci\u003eAge of Anger\u003c\/i\u003e, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century, before leading us to the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe shows that as the world became modern those who were unable to fulfil its promises - freedom, stability and prosperity - were increasingly susceptible to demagogues. The many who came late to this new world or were left, or pushed, behind, reacted in horrifyingly similar ways: intense hatred of invented enemies, attempts to re-create an imaginary golden age, and self-empowerment through spectacular violence. It was from among the ranks of the disaffected that the militants of the 19th century arose - angry young men who became cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic revolutionaries in Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, and anarchist terrorists internationally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, just as then, the wider embrace of mass politics, technology, and the pursuit of wealth and individualism has cast many more millions adrift in a literally demoralized world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity - with the same terrible results\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking startling connections and comparisons, \u003ci\u003eAge of Anger\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of immense urgency and profound argument. It is a history of our present predicament unlike any other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePankaj Mishra \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eFrom the Ruins of Empire \u003c\/i\u003eand several other books. He is a columnist at \u003ci\u003eBloomberg View\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review,\u003c\/i\u003e and writes regularly for\u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker.\u003c\/i\u003e A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format, Englisch, 416 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63411179389277,"sku":"K066341290","price":11.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/222321-6634129000001A.jpg?v=1770962318","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/age-of-anger-pankaj-mishra","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}