The new Vichy syndrome : why European intellectuals surrender to barbarism / Theodore Dalrymple.
By: Dalrymple, Theodore.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Encounter Books, c2010Edition: 1st American ed.Description: xi, 163 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781594035661 (pbk.) :; 1594035660 (pbk.) :; 9781594033728 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1594033722 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Europe, Western -- Civilization -- 21st century | Europe, Western -- Intellectual life -- 21st century | Europe, Western -- Social conditions -- 21st century | National characteristics, European | Europe, Western -- Ethnic relations | France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | D 2021 .D35 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5039255 |
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D 1065 .U5 S413 1968 The American challenge / | D 1065 .U5 S75x 1964 The end of alliance: America and the future of Europe. | D 2021 .D35 2010 The new Vichy syndrome : why European intellectuals surrender to barbarism / | D 2021 .D35 2010 The new Vichy syndrome : why European intellectuals surrender to barbarism / | DA 1 .E45 1966 Archives and local history / | DA 1 .H59 1967 Fieldwork in local history / | DA 1 .M3 1971 Medieval history in the Tudor age / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Something rotten -- Anxiety -- Weakness -- Demographic worries, or the dearth of birth and its consequences-- Immigrants instead of children -- Something missing -- Apocalypse soon, or not -- They breed like-- -- Demographic counter-revolution -- Immigrants change -- Fun-loving Moslem women -- Fundamentally wrong -- The woman question -- Vive la differâence -- Summary and conclusions so far -- The role of relativism, moral and epistemological -- Come back, Descartes, we need you -- The attack on science -- The spread of doubt -- The multiculturalism of daily life -- Choice the highest good -- All options open -- Why are we like this (i)? -- A herd of individuals -- Secularization -- Life without transcendence -- A new pagan transcendence -- The transcendence of small causes -- Anti-nationalist transcendence -- A new identity -- Why are we life this (ii)? -- Everybody a community of identities -- The importance of national identity -- Persistent animosities -- The causes of peace -- German self-deprecation -- Common currency as a source of national antagonism -- What is it really all about? -- European Union as a pension fund -- Why are we like this (iii)? -- Doing their best for their electorates -- An experiment against reality -- Why are we like this (iv)? -- Patriotism and its discontents -- Nothing but-ism -- Problems in and with the past -- A change of meaning -- If that's what the victors thought, what about the defeated? -- Why are we like this (v)? -- Nothing but-ism revisited -- Last and best -- Vichy in the blood -- After liberation, massacre -- Unequal treatment -- We have no history -- Why are we like this (vi)? -- Why are we like this (vii)? -- Another way of being important -- The consequences -- The constructive urge is also destructive -- Hedonism at best, comfort at worst -- American envoi.
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