The new Vichy syndrome
Subtitle: why European intellectuals surrender to barbarism
By: by Theodore Dalrymple.
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781594033728
Subjects: National characteristics, European; Europe, Western -- Civilization -- 21st century; Europe, Western -- Intellectual life -- 21st century; Europe, Western -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Europe, Western -- Ethnic relations; France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945
Table of contents: title: Something rotten; title: Anxiety; title: Weakness; title: Demographic worries, or, The dearth of birth; title: Immigrants instead of children; title: Something missing; title: Apocalypse soon, or not; title: They breed like...; title: Demographic counter-revolution; title: Immigrants change; title: Fun-loving Moslem women; title: Fundamentally wrong; title: The woman question; title: Vive la difference; title: Summary and conclusions so far; title: The role of relativism, moral and epistemological; title: Come back, Descartes, we need you; title: The attack on science; title: The spread of doubt; title: The multiculturalism of daily life; title: Choice : the highest good; title: All options open; title: Why are we like this (i)?; title: A herd of individuals; title: Secularisation; title: Life without transcendence; title: A new pagan transcendence; title: The transcendence of small causes; title: Anti-nationalist transcendence; title: A new identity; title: Why are we life this (ii)?; title: Everybody a community of identities; title: The importance of national identity; title: Persistent animosities; title: The causes of peace German self-deprecation; title: Common currency as a source of national antagonism; title: What is it really all about?; title: European Union as a pension fund; title: Why are we like this (iii)?; title: Doing the best for their electorates; title: An experiment against reality; title: Why are we like this (iv)?; title: Patriotism and its discontents; title: Nothing but-ism; title: Problems in and with the past; title: A change of meaning; title: If that's what the victors thought, what about the defeated?; title: Why are we like this (v)?; title: Nothing but-ism revisited; title: Last and best Vichy in the blood; title: After liberation, massacre; title: Unequal treatment; title: We have no history; title: Why are we like this (vi)?; title: Why are we like this (vii)?; title: Another way of being important?; title: The consequences; title: The constructive urge is also a destructive urge; title: Hedonism at best, comfort at worst; title: American envoi.