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  • The Triumph of the Slippers

    On the Withdrawal from the World

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Cory Stockwell ...
    Since the beginning of the 21st century, global warming, terrorism, the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have created a widespread feeling that the world is an increasingly dangerous place. In response to this situation, it is understandable that many people are inclined to retreat to the safety of their home – the last refuge and safeguard against the savagery of the outside world. But the ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • An Imaginary Racism

    Islamophobia and Guilt

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    ‘Islamophobia’ is a term that has existed since the nineteenth century. But in recent decades, argues Pascal Bruckner in his controversial new book, it has become a weapon used to silence criticism of Islam. The term allows those who brandish it in the name of Islam to ‘freeze’ the latter, making reform difficult. Whereas Christianity and Judaism have been rejuvenated over the centuries by ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • I Suffer Therefore I Am

    Portrait of the Victim as Hero

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Stephen Muecke ...
    In the West today, suffering has become a new sacred cow. Once a common feature of the human condition, it is now a special trait you can use to impress your contemporaries. It provides you with a borrowed identity, transforming you into an exceptional being who can show off on the public stage at little cost. Everyone flaunts their certificate of affliction, positioning themselves above their ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The Tyranny of Guilt

    An Essay on Western Masochism

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, 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. It has become a pathology, and even an obstacle to fighting today's atrocities. Bruckner, one of France's leading ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse

    Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to ‘save the planet’ and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground.Modern society’s ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • A Brief Eternity

    The Philosophy of Longevity

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall, Lisa Neal ...
    There is one fundamental thing that has changed in our societies since 1950: life has got longer. Over the last few generations, 20 or 30 years have been added to the duration of our lives. But after the age of 50, human beings experience a kind of suspension: no longer young, not really old, they are, as it were, weightless. It is a reprieve that leaves life open like a swinging door. The ... Read more

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  • My Little husband

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    The diminutive Leon is the envy of all Paris when he becomes engaged to the successful stomatologist and ravishing 6ft beauty Solange, who leaves no man unstirred - including the priest who weds them. The dutiful husband happily ignores jealous remarks about the union of 'giraffe and zebra' as he sires one beautiful baby after another. But as his domestic bliss with Solange continues and their ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Has Marriage for Love Failed?

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Today we like to think that marriage is a free choice based on love: that we freely choose whom to marry and that we do so, not so much for survival or social advantage, but for love. The invention of marriage for love inverted the old relationship between love and marriage. In the past, marriage was sacred, and love, if it existed at all, was a consequence of marriage; today, love is sacred and ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Perpetual Euphoria

    On the Duty to Be Happy

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    How happiness became mandatory—and why we should reject the demand to "be happy"Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion—one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating principle of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Wisdom of Money

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    Money is an evil that does good, and a good that does evil. It inspires hymns to the prosperity it enables, manifestos about the poor it leaves behind, and diatribes for its corrosion of morality. In The Wisdom of Money, one of the world’s great essayists guides us through the rich commentary that money has generated since ancient times—both the passions and the resentments—as he builds an ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Deciphering the New Antisemitism

    by Bruno Chaouat, Günther Jikeli, Kenneth L. Marcus, David S Patterson, Elhanan Yakira, Sina Arnold, Doron S. Ben-Atar, Bruckner Pascal, Jean Axelrad Cahan, Eirik Eiglad, Aleksandra Gliszcynska-Grabias, Stephan Grigat, Matthias Küntzel, Bodo Kahmann, Aryeh Tuchman, Mark Weitzman, Bernard Harrison, R. Amy Elman ...
    Series series Studies in Antisemitism
    Deciphering the New Antisemitism addresses the increasing prevalence of antisemitism on a global scale. Antisemitism takes on various forms in all parts of the world, and the essays in this wide-ranging volume deal with many of them: European antisemitism, antisemitism and Islamophobia, antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and efforts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. Contributors are an ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Friendship of a Mountain

    A Brief Treatise on Elevation

    Translated by Cory Stockwell ...
    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Why are we fascinated by mountains? These outcrops of rock were once considered unsightly, something to be avoided at all costs, but, since Rousseau, they have been contrasted with our corrupt cities and viewed as serene enclaves of beauty and relaxation.But why climb to the summit only to come back down again? Why does the toil of climbing convert into joy? What metaphysics of the absolute is ... Read more

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