A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism from two pre-eminent intellectuals.
Ivan Krastev is a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in
Vienna, a contributing opinion writer for the International New
York Times and, most recently, the author of the widely acclaimed
After Europe.
Stephen Holmes is Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and the
author of many books on liberalism.
A brilliant, original book on the crisis of modern liberalism ... a
must read to understand our present discontents
*Financial Times Books of the Year*
A brilliant explanation of the mess we are in now ... written with
wonderfully dry wit
*Evening Standard Books of the Year*
If you read one book to understand the state of the world today,
make it this one. Aphoristic, counter-intuitive and amusing, a
single page provides more insight into populism than libraries of
books on Brexit or Trump. . . Extraordinary and compelling. . . Its
subject matter is bleak but the deep learning, humour and humanity
of its authors shines through
*Prospect*
An important book that fizzes with ideas. . . There is a smart
insight or elegant paradox on almost every page. . . This book
poses in stark terms the dilemma for those who took for granted the
ideas that created the postwar western world
*The Sunday Times*
Justly acclaimed
*Financial Times Books of the Year*
Sharp, polemical and ideas-packed
*Economist*
Compelling and witty
*Prospect Books of the Year*
An unflinchingly honest explanation of what has gone wrong in the
west - and the east - since 1989
*Financial Times*
Witty, incisive, devastating: an unforgettable analysis of why the
light of liberalism failed in Eastern Europe, and why resentment
towards imitation of the West has fueled the furies of the populist
revolt
*Michael Ignatieff, President of Central European University,
Budapest*
This is a book about imitation by a couple of utterly inimitable
authors. It is the most original explanation I've read of the
self-destruction of the liberal West as universal utopia. Its
analysis is rooted in an unparalleled understanding of the
resentment fuelled revolt (and revolting resentment) of political
elites who sought to ape the West, and ended up loathing it for
that very reason. Scathing yet fair
*Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is
Possible*
A bracing analysis of post-Cold War politics, upending cherished
assumptions and forcing us to look afresh at the complex dialectic
of liberalism and illiberalism
*George Soros*
This is a book about copying that makes an original argument. In
doing so, it reminds us that liberal democracy depends not on
mechanical processes but on human originality
*Timothy Snyder*
Krastev is always what the English call good value, and his
perspective here on the differences between the parodic Russian
response to our newly victorious West and the "imitation" of
Eastern Europe is devious, plausible, and amusing
*Paris Review*
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