Revolt - The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization (Eyal Nadav)(Pevná vazba)

"A well-written and thought-provoking account of the currentcrisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation,but few will remain indifferent."Yuval Noah Harari, author ofSapiens An eye-opening examination of nationalismsspread around the world as the promise of globalism wanesRevoltis an eloquentand provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalismand populism. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modernglobalization is not sustainable. He contends that the collapse of the currentworld order is not so much about the imbalance between technologicalachievement and social progress or the breakdown of liberal democracy as it isabout a passion to upend and destroy power structures that have become hollow,corrupt. or simply unresponsive to urgent needs. Eyal illuminates the benignand malignant forces that have so rapidly transformed our economic, political,and cultural realities, shedding light not only on the economic and culturalrevolution that has come to define our time but also on the counterrevolutionwaged by those it has marginalized and exploited.With a mixture ofjournalistic narrative, penetrating vignettes, and original analysis, Revoltshows that the left and right have much in common. Eyal tells stories ofdistressed Pennsylvania coal miners, anarchist communes on the outskirts ofAthens, a Japanese town with collapsing fertility rates, neo-Nazis in Germany,and Syrian refugee families whom he ac
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