Book Review- Age of Anger - Pankaj Mishra

Abstract

The current global turbulence - the recoil from globalization, political and economic shocks, Brexit, terrorism, ISIS, rise of leaders like Donald Trump and Recep Erdogan and so on - is the subject of this book. In dwelling on it, Pankaj Mishra looks beyond the proximate causes to where its complex roots lie in the historical landscape and the mind of man -- advent of a commercial-industrial civilization in the west leading to its subsequent replication elsewhere and the vastly disruptive impact on societies and human condition of that transformation.