The tyranny of guilt : an essay on Western masochism /

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Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that guilt has now gone too far. It has become a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bruckner, Pascal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Temas:
1900-2099
Civilization, Western > 20th century.
Civilization, Western > 21st century.
International relations > Moral and ethical aspects.
Guilt.
Self-hate (Psychology)
World politics.
Civilisation occidentale > 20e siècle.
Civilisation occidentale > 21e siècle.
Relations internationales > Aspect moral.
Culpabilité.
Autodépréciation.
Politique mondiale.
guilt.
HISTORY > World.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Civilization, Western
Guilt
Intellectual life
Diplomatic relations
International relations > Moral and ethical aspects
World politics
Western countries > Foreign relations.
Western countries > Intellectual life.
Occident > Relations extérieures.
Occident > Vie intellectuelle.
Western countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Guilt peddlers
  • The irremediable and despondency
  • The ideology that stammers
  • The self-flagellants of the Western world
  • A thirst for punishment
  • The pathologies of debt
  • Placing the enemy in one's heart
  • The vanities of self-hatred
  • One-way repentance
  • The false quarrel over Islamophobia
  • Innocence recovered
  • How central is the Near East?
  • "Zionism, the criminal DNA of humanity"
  • Unmasking the usurper
  • A delicate arbitrage
  • The doubly damned
  • The fanaticism of modesty
  • A tardy conversion to virtue
  • The empire of emptiness
  • The pacification of the past
  • The guilty imagination
  • Recovering self-esteem
  • The twofold lesson
  • The second Golgotha
  • Misinterpretations of Auschwitz
  • Hitlerizing history
  • The twofold colonial nostalgia
  • Listen to my suffering
  • On victimization as a career
  • Protect minorities or emancipate the individual?
  • What duty of memory?
  • Depression in paradise : France, a symptom and caricature of Europe
  • A universal victim?
  • The wild ass's skin
  • Who are the reactionaries?
  • The triumph of fear
  • Metamorphosis or decline?
  • Doubt and faith : the quarrel between Europe and the United States
  • To be or to have
  • The troublemakers in history
  • The archaism of the soldier
  • The swaggering Colossus.

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