The new Vichy syndrome : why European intellectuals surrender to barbarism / Theodore Dalrymple
- Bib ID:
- 4902537
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Dalrymple, Theodore
- Edition:
- 1st American ed.
- Description:
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- New York, N.Y. : Encounter Books, c2010
- xi, 163 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781594033728
- 1594033722
- Full contents:
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- Something rotten
- Anxiety
- Weakness
- Demographic worries, or the dearth of birth and its consequences
- Immigrants instead of children
- Something missing
- Apocalypse soon, or not
- They breed like
- Demographic counter-revolution
- Immigrants change
- Fun-loving Moslem women
- Fundamentally wrong
- The woman question
- Vive la differâence
- Summary and conclusions so far
- The role of relativism, moral and epistemological
- Come back, Descartes, we need you
- The attack on science
- The spread of doubt
- The multiculturalism of daily life
- Choice the highest good
- All options open
- Why are we like this (i)?
- A herd of individuals
- Secularization
- Life without transcendence
- A new pagan transcendence
- The transcendence of small causes
- Anti-nationalist transcendence
- A new identity
- Why are we life this (ii)?
- Everybody a community of identities
- The importance of national identity
- Persistent animosities
- The causes of peace
- German self-deprecation
- Common currency as a source of national antagonism
- What is it really all about?
- European Union as a pension fund
- Why are we like this (iii)?
- Doing their best for their electorates
- An experiment against reality
- Why are we like this (iv)?
- Patriotism and its discontents
- Nothing but-ism
- Problems in and with the past
- A change of meaning
- If that's what the victors thought, what about the defeated?
- Why are we like this (v)?
- Nothing but-ism revisited
- Last and best
- Vichy in the blood
- After liberation, massacre
- Unequal treatment
- We have no history
- Why are we like this (vi)?
- Why are we like this (vii)?
- Another way of being important
- The consequences
- The constructive urge is also destructive
- Hedonism at best, comfort at worst
- American envoi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2010
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