Télécharger le livre :  I Suffer Therefore I Am
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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-08-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Triumph of the Slippers
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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-04-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Friendship of a Mountain
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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-05-25
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Télécharger le livre :  A Brief Eternity
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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-02-03
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Télécharger le livre :  An Imaginary Racism
‘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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Has Marriage for Love Failed?
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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-10-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse
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:...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-16
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