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The tyranny of guilt an essay on Western masochism

Title
The tyranny of guilt [electronic resource] : an essay on Western masochism / Pascal Bruckner ; translated from the French by Steven Rendall.
Author
Bruckner, Pascal.
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.

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Description
1 online resource (xi, 239 p.)
Uniform Title
Tyrannie de la pénitence. English (Online)
Alternative Title
Tyrannie de la pénitence.
Subject
  • Civilization, Western > 20th century
  • Civilization, Western > 21st century
  • International relations > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Guilt
  • Self-hate (Psychology)
  • World politics
  • Western countries > Foreign relations
  • Western countries > Intellectual life
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
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 -- America 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.
LCCN
2009032666
OCLC
ssj0000343995
Author
Bruckner, Pascal.
Title
The tyranny of guilt [electronic resource] : an essay on Western masochism / Pascal Bruckner ; translated from the French by Steven Rendall.
Imprint
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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