Physical Description
xi, 239 p. ; 23 cm.
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
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.
ISBN
9780691143767
0691143765 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.