On Pankaj Mishra’s “The World After Gaza: A History”
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In The Age of Anger: A History of the Present (2017), Indian novelist, historian, and public intellectual Pankaj Mishra described ressentiment as the defining feature of our age. Friedrich Nietzsche had spoken of the “men of ressentiment,” the alienated, abandoned, humiliated, and pushed aside losers in the modern world. Western…
