Bland Fanatics Liberals, The West, and the Afterlives of Empire

Pankaj Mishra, Derek Perkins

eAudio - 2020

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, an...d 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....

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Published
Tantor Media, Inc
Language
English
Main Authors
Pankaj Mishra, Derek Perkins
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File Size226 GB
ISBN9781705237151
Release Date10/6/2020