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Since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that guilt has now gone too far. He argues that obsessive guilt has obscured important realities. The West has destroyed monsters as well as created them. The West should be proud--and ready to defend itself and its values. In this, Europeans should learn from Americans, who still have sufficient self-esteem to act decisively in a world of chaos and violence. Lamenting the vice of anti-Americanism that grips so many European intellectuals, Bruckner urges a renewed transatlantic alliance. This is a searing, provocative, and psychologically penetrating account of the crude thought and bad politics that arise from excessive bad conscience.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History General & world history

• Full title: Tyranny of Guilt
• Author: Pascal Bruckner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780691154305
• ISBN: 0691154309
• ID: 04460085
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 310 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 134 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2012

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