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100 1 _aDalrymple, Theodore.
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245 1 4 _aThe new Vichy syndrome :
_bwhy European intellectuals surrender to barbarism /
_cTheodore Dalrymple.
250 _a1st American ed.
260 _aNew York, N.Y. :
_bEncounter Books,
_cc2010.
300 _axi, 163 p. ;
_c24 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
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338 _2rdacarrier
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aSomething 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.
651 0 _aEurope, Western
_xCivilization
_y21st century.
_9103365
651 0 _aEurope, Western
_xIntellectual life
_y21st century.
_9103368
651 0 _aEurope, Western
_xSocial conditions
_y21st century.
_9103370
650 0 _aNational characteristics, European.
_9103373
651 0 _aEurope, Western
_xEthnic relations.
_9103374
651 0 _aFrance
_xHistory
_yGerman occupation, 1940-1945.
_9103375
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