Enter Alain Badiou, only too eager to supply the remedy. Badiou is a philosopher by training who has become, for lack of a better term, "hot" among the cultural-studies crowd. Fellow star Slavoj Zizek ...
In the 2011 French comedy L’Amour dure trois ans (Love Lasts Three Years), Pascal Bruckner perches on a red sofa next to his friend and fellow nouveau philosophe Alain Finkielkraut. With a sad smile, ...
Pascal Bruckner, trans. from the French by Steven Rendall. Polity (Wiley, dist.), $25 (204p) ISBN 978-0-7456-6976-2 In his newest work of political philosophy, Bruckner (The Tyranny of Guilt) takes a ...
Pascal Bruckner soothes capitalist feathers ruffled by Thomas Piketty: “What does it matter that the rich are getting richer?” (Ryger) Four years ago, a leading French intellectual produced a ...
On The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism, by Pascal Bruckner. Shortly after taking office in 2009, President Barack Obama declared America’s need to “restore” good relations with Muslims ...
French philosopher Bruckner (The Tyranny of Guilt) argues that Islamophobia is being weaponized to muzzle legitimate critique of Islam in this dubious study. Building on his critique of “Western white ...
Once upon a time, it seemed an incontestable fact that the life of the mind radiated from the Left Bank outward. Within a small quadrant of the Latin Quarter in Paris, an intellectual elite labored to ...
As an asteroid hurtles toward Earth, terrified citizens pour into the streets to stare at the mammoth object growing before them. Soon, it will pass harmlessly by — but first, a strange old man, ...
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