Open AccessDouglas Murray's The Madness of Crowds
Author(s) -
Ligia Tomoiagă
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
papers in arts and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2784-143X
DOI - 10.52885/pah.v1i1.41
Subject(s) - crowds , ideology , conversation , identity (music) , backlash , media studies , race (biology) , law , sociology , history , political science , criminology , gender studies , politics , aesthetics , philosophy , engineering , computer security , mechanical engineering , communication , computer science
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.