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The tyranny of guilt : an essay on Western masochism
- Title
- The tyranny of guilt : 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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Details
- Description
- xi, 239 p.; 23 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Tyrannie de la pénitence. English
- Alternative Title
- Tyrannie de la pénitence.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 10-1427
- ISBN
- 9780691143767
- 0691143765
- LCCN
- 2009032666
- OCLC
- 2009032666
- Author
- Bruckner, Pascal.
- Title
- The tyranny of guilt : 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.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 10-1427