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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 inclined to retreat to the safety of their home ‿ the last refuge and safeguard against the savagery of the outside world.  But the home is not just a shelter: it is a space that s...

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 to the summit only to come back down again? Why does the toil of climbing convert into joy? What metaphysics of the absolute is playing out here - what challenge does climbing p...

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 'freeze' the latter, making reform difficult. Whereas Christianity and Judaism have been rejuvenated over the centuries by external criticism, Islam has been shielded from critic...

Der Fall der Berliner Mauer hat die europäische Linke in Ratlosigkeit gestu¿rzt. Auf dem Kampffeld der Ideen sind Fortschritt, Freiheit und Universalismus einer neuen, aus den USA importierten Triade gewichen: Geschlecht, Identität, Rasse. Progressive kämpften einst im Namen der Arbeiterklasse, der Dritten Welt und den Verdammten dieser Erde. Heute dominieren die Diskurse des Neofeminismus, Antirassismus und Postkolonialismus, die den weißen M...

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 young, not really old, they are, as it were, weightless. It is a reprieve that leaves life open like a swinging door. The increase in life expectancy is a tremendous step forwa...

Seit mehr als dreißig Jahren macht der Begriff der »Islamophobie« jedes kritische Wort gegen den Islam zunichte. Er verbietet den Menschen im Westen den Mund und disqualifiziert die reformerischen Muslime.

How happiness became mandatory-and why we should reject the demand to "be happy" Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion-one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating principle of the Enlightenment-the right to pursue happiness-...

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 'freeze' the latter, making reform difficult. Whereas Christianity and Judaism have been rejuvenated over the centuries by external criticism, Islam has been shielded from critic...

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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 marriage. In the past, marriage was sacred, and love, if it existed at all, was a consequence of marriage, today, love is sacred and marriage is secondary. But now marriage appears ...

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The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Concern about the environment is legitimate, but catastrophism transforms us into cowering children. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to 'save the planet' and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catas...

In Occidente il matrimonio è in crisi: aumentano i divorzi, sempre più persone scelgono di vivere da sole e le famiglie sono spesso monoparentali. Ma qual è il motivo? Al riguardo Pascal Bruckner ha un'opinione ben precisa: non sarà proprio l'amore, eletto a ideale assoluto e totalizzante, e commercializzato come modello massimo di realizzazione personale, a minare dal di dentro la stabilità della coppia? Nella seconda metà del Novecento il ma...

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A trent'anni dalla rivoluzione sessuale, che travolse la società occidentale sconvolgendo in modo profondo e forse irreversibile costumi e istituzioni radicati da secoli, Pascal Bruckner traccia un bilancio di quegli eventi e delle loro conseguenze. Ebbene, il sesso libero e la coppia aperta non sono diventati il modello dominante, sesso e amore non si sono separati una volta per tutte, i legami sono ancora possessivi ed esclusivi, a volte in ...

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: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground. Modern society's susceptibility to this kind of thinking derives from wh...

L'uomo bianco è malvagio, il Nord si è arricchito tenendo in catene i popoli del Sud e si è macchiato delle peggiori colpe mai commesse: colonialismo e imperialismo. Perciò, a partire dal secondo dopoguerra, Europa e America hanno tentato di espiare il loro peccato originale nei confronti dei paesi poveri dando vita a una sorta di religione secolarizzata che scimmiotta il cristianesimo: il terzomondismo. I fedeli di questa "chiesa" possono pur...

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A memoir charting the author's journey from pious Catholic child to leading philosopher and writer on French culture. A focal point is the 1960s and the leading French intellectuals of the period, such as Sartre. Translated by Mike Mitchell.