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The new Vichy syndrome : why European intellectuals surrender to barbarism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dalrymple, Theodore
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Encounter Books, [2010]
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
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, 1940-1945.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.