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Douglas Murray's The Madness of Crowds
Douglas Murray's The Madness of Crowds

Author(s): Ligia Tomoiagă
Subject(s): Sociology, History and theory of political science
Published by: Partiumi Keresztény Egyetem
Keywords: ideology;woke;race;women;gay;

Summary/Abstract: Douglas Murray, the author of The Strange Death of Europe (2017), and The Madness of Crowds (2019; 'expanded and updated edition' in 2020), is one of the leading journalists and authors in Great Britain in the fight of the centre-conservative intellectuals against the 'woke' ideologues. His latest book deals with four of the most controversial issues of today's 'identity ideology': Gay, Women, Race and Trans, showing that such unstable concepts cannot be the solid ground for any serious conversation, or for the social edifice. On the contrary, they are treated in such a way that the danger of totalitarian states is no longer unconceivable; what is more, with the cancel culture of today, it is more likely than not that it will cause a serious backlash in the future, which may reverse some of the advancements of the fight for rights of all kinds. Murray, D. (2020). The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity. Bloomsbury Continuum.

  • Issue Year: 1/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 128-131
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: English