The tyranny of guilt
Subtitle: an essay on Western masochism
By: Pascal Bruckner ; translated from the French by Steven Rendall
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780691143767
Work titles: Tyrannie de la pénitence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Guilt peddlers; title: The irremediable and despondency; title: The ideology that stammers; title: The self-flagellants of the Western world; title: A thirst for punishment; title: The pathologies of debt; title: Placing the enemy in one's heart; title: The vanities of self-hatred; title: One-way repentance; title: The false quarrel over Islamophobia; title: Innocence recovered; title: How central is the Near East?; title: "Zionism, the criminal DNA of humanity"; title: Unmasking the usurper; title: A delicate arbitrage; title: America doubly damned; title: The fanaticism of modesty; title: A tardy conversion to virtue; title: The empire of emptiness; title: The pacification of the past; title: The guilty imagination; title: Recovering self-esteem; title: The twofold lesson; title: The second Golgotha; title: Misinterpretations of Auschwitz; title: Hitlerizing history; title: The twofold colonial nostalgia; title: Listen to my suffering; title: On victimization as a career; title: Protect minorities or emancipate the individual?; title: What duty of memory?; title: Depression in paradise : France, a symptom and caricature of Europe; title: A universal victim?; title: The wild ass's skin; title: Who are the reactionaries?; title: The triumph of fear; title: Metamorphosis or decline?; title: Doubt and faith : the quarrel between Europe and the United States; title: To be or to have; title: The troublemakers in history; title: The archaism of the soldier; title: The swaggering Colossus.