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632435
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Tyrannie de la penitence.English
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Bruckner, Pascal.
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The Tyranny of Guilt : An Essay on Western Masochism /\ Pascal Bruckner ; translated from the French by Steven Rendall.
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton :: Princeton University Press,, c2010.
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1 online resource (xi, 239 p. )
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9781400834310
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: 1400834317
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9780691143767 (cloth : alk. paper)
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0691143765 (cloth : alk. paper)
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9780691154305
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0691154309
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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World politics.
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Self-hate (Psychology)
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Guilt.
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International relations-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Civilization, Western-- 21st century.
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Civilization, Western-- 20th century.
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Western countries, Intellectual life.
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Western countries, Foreign relations.
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Project Muse.
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