Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire

by Pankaj Mishra

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374293317
• ISBN13: 9780374293314
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"