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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalrymple, Theodore.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, European.

Europe, Western--Civilization--21st century.

Europe, Western.

Europe, Western--Intellectual life--21st century.

Europe, Western--Social conditions--21st century.

Europe, Western--Ethnic relations.

France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

Pbk ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Encounter Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On the other hand, there is growing anxiety that Europe is quickly falling behind in an aggressive, globalized world. Europe is at the forefront of nothing, its demographics are rapidly transforming in unsettling ways, and the ancient threat of barbarian invasion has resurfaced in a fresh manifest

Contents:

Title Page; Praise; Preface; PREFACE; 1. - SOMETHING ROTTEN; ANXIETY; WEAKNESS; 2. - DEMOGRAPHIC WORRIES, OR THE DEARTH OF BIRTH AND ITS CONSEQUENCES; IMMIGRANTS INSTEAD OF CHILDREN; SOMETHING MISSING; APOCALYPSE SOON, OR NOT; 3. - THEY BREED LIKE . . .; DEMOGRAPHIC COUNTER-REVOLUTION; IMMIGRANTS CHANGE; FUN-LOVING MOSLEM WOMEN; FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG; THE WOMAN QUESTION; VIVE LA DIFFÉRENCE; 4. - SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS SO FAR; 5. - 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 GOODALL OPTIONS OPEN; 6. - 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; 7. - WHY ARE WE LIKE 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; 8. - WHY ARE WE LIKE THIS (III)?

DOING THEIR BEST FOR THEIR ELECTORATESAN EXPERIMENT AGAINST REALITY; 9. - 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?; 10. - 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; 11. - WHY ARE WE LIKE THIS (VI)?; 12. - WHY ARE WE LIKE THIS (VII)?; ANOTHER WAY OF BEING IMPORTANT; 13. - THE CONSEQUENCES; THE CONSTRUCTIVE URGE IS ALSO DESTRUCTIVE

HEDONISM AT BEST, COMFORT AT WORSTAMERICAN ENVOI; INDEX; Copyright Page

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613304612

9781283304610

1283304619

9781594035678

1594035679

OCLC:

759807126