Tyrannie de la pénitence

By Pascal Bruckner

Subjects: United states, foreign relations, Western Civilization, Moral and ethical aspects, Intellectual life, Guilt, Foreign relations, Self-hate (Psychology), Self-hate (psychology), Intellectual life., Civilization, western, Moral and ethical aspects of International relations, United states, intellectual life, International relations, moral and ethical aspects, World politics, International relations

Description: 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. This title argues that guilt has gone too far. It states that obsessive guilt has obscured important realities