Riots, social tensions, a collapse of trust, and mutual recriminations: in recent years, levels of popular anger have been steadily rising in our societies as the legitimacy of governments is called into question. But there is something unprecedented about the sheer vehemence of this anger, expressed as it is by a new kind of agent: the individual tyrant. In this brilliant book, the philosopher Eric Sadin offers a unique, ground-breaking and tragically compelling historical, political, and socio-economic analysis of the collapse of our communal world.