Pascal Bruckner ; translated from the French by Steven Rendall.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Princeton :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Princeton University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2010.
Place of Manufacture
(Baltimore, Md. :
Name of Manufacturer
Project MUSE,
Date of Manufacture
2015)
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xi, 239 p. )
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Tyrannie de la penitence.
Language (when part of a heading)
English
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Civilization, Western-- 20th century.
Civilization, Western-- 21st century.
Guilt.
International relations-- Moral and ethical aspects.