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 excepti...Daugiau...
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 tha...Daugiau...
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 rel...Daugiau...
Leon Wieseltier, William Deresiewicz, Celeste Marcus, Robert Kagan, Elliot Ackerman, Oksana Forostyna, Justin E.H. Smith, James Wolcott, David Thomson, Pascal Bruckner...
A Meteor of Intelligent SubstanceSomething was Missing in our Culture, and Here It IsLiberties is THE place to be. Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading fo...Daugiau...
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 t...Daugiau...
A brilliant philosophical reflection on the meaning of life after 50-- 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 du...Daugiau...
How happiness became mandatoryand why we should reject the demand to be happyHappiness 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 reli...Daugiau...
‘Islamophobia’ is a term that has existed since the 19th century. But in recent decades, argues Pascal Bruckner in his controversial new book, this term has become a weapon used to silence criticism of Islam. It allows those who brandish...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-May-2017, Hardback, Leidėjas: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674972278)
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 worlds great essa...Daugiau...
Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Jean Axelrad Cahan, Bruno Chaouat, Günther Jikeli, Kenneth L. Marcus, David S Patterson, Elhanan Yakira, Sina Arnold, Doron S. Ben-Atar, Bruckner Pascal...
Serija: Studies in Antisemitism
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Dec-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253018656)
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 anti...Daugiau...
Pascal Bruckner is a very well known French philosopher who writes forcefully argued essays on topical themes. In this book Bruckner sets out to attack what he calls ecological catastrophism D the idea that, as a result of climate change, were fac...Daugiau...
In this thought-provoking book, the author argues that the old tension between love and marriage has not been resolved in favor of love, it has simply been displaced on other levels. Today we like to think that marriage is a free choice based...Daugiau...
