Summary
"One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis. How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism... Full description
- Prologue: Forgotten Conjunctures
- Clearing a Space : History's Winners and their Illusions
- Loving Oneself Through Others : Progress and its Contradictions
- Losing My Religion : Islam, Secularism and Revolution
- Regaining My Religion : I. Nationalism Unbound; I I. Messianic Visions
- Finding True Freedom and Equality : The Heritage of Nihilism
- Epilogue: Finding Reality.