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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Dalrymple, Theodore.     Subjects     National characteristics, European.     Europe, Western -- Civilization -- 21st century.     Europe, Western -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.     Europe, Western -- Social conditions -- 21st century.     Europe, Western -- Ethnic relations.     France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dalrymple, Theodore.       by title:      The new Vichy syndro...       by call number:      940.56 D151n     Search the Web     Dalrymple, Theodore.     National characteristics, European.     Europe, Western -- Civilization -- 21st century.     Europe, Western -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.     Europe, Western -- Social conditions -- 21st century.     Europe, Western -- Ethnic relations.     France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.       MARC Display

The new Vichy syndrome : why European intellectuals surrender to barbarism / Theodore Dalrymple. by Dalrymple, Theodore. Encounter Books, c2010. Call #: 940.56 D151n Subjects National characteristics, European.   Europe, Western -- Civilization -- 21st century.   Europe, Western -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.   Europe, Western -- Social conditions -- 21st century.   Europe, Western -- Ethnic relations.   France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945. ISBN:  9781594033728 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1594033722 (hardcover : alk. paper) Edition:  1st American ed. Description:  xi, 163 p. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 940.56 D151n Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 940.56 D151n Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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