Weil, Simone
welfare systems, state
Western society (the West)
advent of commercial-industrial civilization
assumed convergence on ‘Western Model’
as civilization of a minority
clash of civilizations thesis
conceptual and intellectual architecture of
failure of post-9/11 policies
Foucault on
global impact of materialism
military overreactions
new ‘Western Model’ (post-1945)
nineteenth-century dominance of
rapid growth from eighteenth century
sanitized histories of
shift eastwards of economic power
‘superior values’ rhetoric
transcendence of geographic boundaries
triumphalism at end of Cold War
twenty-first-century decline
West-versus-the-Rest thinking
see also individual, liberal universalist ideal of; modernity; progress, Enlightenment/modern notions of
Wilde, Oscar
will, individual
and Napoleon
Nietzsche’s will to power concept
and present-day violence
and Schopenhauer
Williams, Serena
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
Wolf, Martin
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Wooldridge, Adrian
World Trade Centre attack (1993)
Wyndham Lewis, Percy
Xi Jinping
Yazdi, Ebrahim
Young Bosnia
Yousef, Ramzi Ahmed
Zakaria, Fareed, The Post-American World
Zapata, Emiliano
al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab
Zionism
Betar (youth group)
Zola, Émile
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A Note About the Author
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. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Preface
1 Prologue: Forgotten Conjunctures
2 Clearing a Space: History’s Winners and Their Illusions
3 Loving Oneself Through Others: Progress and Its Contradictions
4 Losing My Religion: Islam, Secularism and Revolution
5 Regaining My Religion: I. Nationalism Unbound; II. Messianic Visions
7 Epilogue: Finding Reality
Bibliographic Essay
Acknowledgements
Index
Also by Pankaj Mishra
A Note About the Author
Copyright
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Originally published in 2017 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain
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