Chetan Bhatt is Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory at LSE.

"This book provides a nuanced and clear-headed insight into debates about identity politics in the world around us. Bhatt’s strident intervention seeks to make readers rethink this whole issue."Professor John Solomos, University of Warwick"Reading Chetan Bhatt’s book is like watching a skilled surgeon dissect a diseased body. He exposes the neoliberal, economic and regulatory conditions in which a particular type of left wing identity politics has thrived within our institutions to devastating illiberal effects. What is so welcome about this book is that the narrative does not get bogged down in rehearsing the requisite academic literature – rather the prose, the diagnosis, the argument and analysis is driven by the careful use of examples. This is a must read."Jo Phoenix, University of Reading

• Acknowledgements Chapter 1:  The Heat of Identity Chapter 2: The Self, the Group, and Identity Politics Chapter 3: Identitarian Technocracy and the Liberal Middle Class Chapter 4: The Queer Empire and Post-Truth Politics Chapter 5: Proximate, Immediate, Emotional: Identitarian Antiracism Chapter 6: Culture, Identity, and Antiracism Chapter 7:  Diminishing Utopias NotesIndex

Chetan Bhatt is Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory at LSE.

"This book provides a nuanced and clear-headed insight into debates about identity politics in the world around us. Bhatt’s strident intervention seeks to make readers rethink this whole issue."Professor John Solomos, University of Warwick"Reading Chetan Bhatt’s book is like watching a skilled surgeon dissect a diseased body. He exposes the neoliberal, economic and regulatory conditions in which a particular type of left wing identity politics has thrived within our institutions to devastating illiberal effects. What is so welcome about this book is that the narrative does not get bogged down in rehearsing the requisite academic literature – rather the prose, the diagnosis, the argument and analysis is driven by the careful use of examples. This is a must read."Jo Phoenix, University of Reading

• Acknowledgements Chapter 1:  The Heat of Identity Chapter 2: The Self, the Group, and Identity Politics Chapter 3: Identitarian Technocracy and the Liberal Middle Class Chapter 4: The Queer Empire and Post-Truth Politics Chapter 5: Proximate, Immediate, Emotional: Identitarian Antiracism Chapter 6: Culture, Identity, and Antiracism Chapter 7:  Diminishing Utopias NotesIndex