The Madness of Crowds

Zusatztext A profoundly helpful insight on the hysteria of cancel culture. Informationen zum Autor Douglas Murray Klappentext THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Updated with a new afterword by the author'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' - Jordan B. Peterson '[Murray's] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone' - Richard Dawkins Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of 'wokeness', the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive.One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society - from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women - Murray's penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament. Zusammenfassung THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' - Jordan B. Peterson 'This is an author who specialises in expressing what everyone sort of knows already and is afraid to say . Well argued! well supported and well observed.' Lionel Shriver '[Murray's] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read! must be read! by everyone' - Richard Dawkins 'How can you not know about The Madness of Crowds ? It's actually the book I've just finished. You can't just not read these books! not know about them.' - Tom Stoppard In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the great derangement of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively! razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality! gender! technology and race! with interludes on the Marxist foundations of 'wokeness'! the impact of tech and how! in an increasingly online culture! we must relearn the ability to forgive.One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society - from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women - Murray's penetrating book! now published with a new afterword! clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Gay Interlude - The Marxist Foundations Women Interlude - The Impact of Tech Race Interlude - On Forgiveness Trans Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgements Notes Index...

A profoundly helpful insight on the hysteria of cancel culture.

Vorwort
The challenging and brilliantly-argued new book from the bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe.

Autorentext
Douglas Murray is an author and journalist based in Britain. His book The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, was published by Bloomsbury Continuum in May 2017. It spent almost 20 weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list and was a No. 1 bestseller in non-fiction. It has subsequently been published in more than 20 languages worldwide and has been read and cited by politicians around the world. The Evening Standard described it as, 'By far the most compelling political book of the year.' Murray has been a contributor to the Spectator since 2000 and has been Associate Editor at the magazine since 2012. He has also written regularly for numerous other outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Sunday Times, the Sun, Evening Standard and the New Criterion. He is a regular contributor to National Review and has been a columnist for Standpoint magazine since its founding. His most recent book is The War in the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason.

Klappentext

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Updated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' - Jordan B. Peterson '[Murray's] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone' - Richard Dawkins Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of 'wokeness', the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive. One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society - from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women - Murray's penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament.

Inhalt
Introduction Gay Interlude - The Marxist Foundations Women Interlude - The Impact of Tech Race Interlude - On Forgiveness Trans Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgements Notes Index