An edition of The new Vichy syndrome
(2010)
The new Vichy syndrome
why European intellectuals surrender to barbarism
1st American ed.
by Theodore Dalrymple
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The new Vichy syndrome: why European intellectuals surrender to barbarism
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The new Vichy syndrome: why European intellectuals surrender to barbarism
2010, Encounter Books
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Table of Contents
Something rotten
Anxiety
Weakness
Demographic worries, or the dearth of birth and its consequences
Immigrants instead of children
Something missing
Apocalypse soon, or not
They breed like
Demographic counter-revolution
Immigrants change
Fun-loving Moslem women
Fundamentally wrong
The woman question
Vive la differâence
Summary and conclusions so far
The role of relativism, moral and epistemological
Come back, Descartes, we need you
The attack on science
The spread of doubt
The multiculturalism of daily life
Choice the highest good
All options open
Why are we like this (i)?
A herd of individuals
Secularization
Life without transcendence
A new pagan transcendence
The transcendence of small causes
Anti-nationalist transcendence
A new identity
Why are we life this (ii)?
Everybody a community of identities
The importance of national identity
Persistent animosities
The causes of peace
German self-deprecation
Common currency as a source of national antagonism
What is it really all about?
European Union as a pension fund
Why are we like this (iii)?
Doing their best for their electorates
An experiment against reality
Why are we like this (iv)?
Patriotism and its discontents
Nothing but-ism
Problems in and with the past
A change of meaning
If that's what the victors thought, what about the defeated?
Why are we like this (v)?
Nothing but-ism revisited
Last and best
Vichy in the blood
After liberation, massacre
Unequal treatment
We have no history
Why are we like this (vi)?
Why are we like this (vii)?
Another way of being important
The consequences
The constructive urge is also destructive
Hedonism at best, comfort at worst
American envoi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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