An edition of Tyrannie de la pénitence: an essay on Western masochism
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The tyranny of guilt
an essay on Western masochism
by Pascal Bruckner
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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. This title argues that guilt has gone too far. It states that obsessive guilt has obscured important realities
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Western Civilization, Moral and ethical aspects, International relations, Self-hate (Psychology), Moral and ethical aspects of International relations, World politics, Intellectual life., Guilt, Foreign relations, Intellectual life, Civilization, western, International relations, moral and ethical aspects, Self-hate (psychology), United states, foreign relations, United states, intellectual lifePlaces
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Table of 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
The swimming pool of 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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