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.

Highlights

  • The publication of The Strange Death of Europe, in 2017 (Murray, 2017), introduced on an international scale the journalist and author Douglas Murray, as a very interesting, yet controversial figure

  • The Madness of Crowds, published in 2019 and re-published with a copious addition in 2020, Murray comes against such narrative again, as he considers four of the most important ideological bricks of the so-called ‘woke’ generation in reference to Gay, Women, Race and Trans

  • ‘You’re opposed to social justice? What do you want, social injustice?’” (Murray, 2020, pp. 2-3). Such ideas of ‘social justice’ have become most familiar in the new view of society as formed by ‘identity groups’–a new division of people according to race, gender, sexuality, and other such ‘group identifiers’. These identity traits function, though, as more than just descriptive characteristics–being black, or being a woman, or being gay is seen as a kind of single trait, as the most important characteristic, defining such people/groups, and allowing them just a certain type of reaction, conviction and social activism

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The publication of The Strange Death of Europe, in 2017 (Murray, 2017), introduced on an international scale the journalist and author Douglas Murray, as a very interesting, yet controversial figure. The Madness of Crowds, published in 2019 and re-published with a copious addition in 2020, Murray comes against such narrative again, as he considers four of the most important ideological bricks of the so-called ‘woke’ generation in reference to Gay, Women, Race and Trans.

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