Tyrannie de la pénitence

By Pascal Bruckner

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