The Tyranny of Guilt
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| + | "[[Pascal Bruckner|Bruckner]] noemt de Cleveringa-lezing (2002) van [[Job Cohen|burgemeester Cohen]] van Amsterdam, waarin hij zegt dat we "bepaalde groepen orthodoxe moslims [moeten] accepteren, die bewust hun vrouwen dicrimineren" omdat we "de samenleving bij elkaar moeten houden".[http://actualiteit.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-21223.html] | ||
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| '''The Tyranny of Guilt''' is a book by [[Pascal Bruckner]] published in French in 2006 as ''La Tyrannie de la Pénitence: Essai sur le Masochisme Occidental'' and in English in 2010. [[Roger Kimball]] regards ''Tyranny of Guilt'' as a sequel to Bruckner's 1983 book ''[[The Tears of the White Man]]''. [[Richard Wolin]] preferred to describe it as a "pendant," a revisiting of the theme of ''Tears of the White Man.'' | '''The Tyranny of Guilt''' is a book by [[Pascal Bruckner]] published in French in 2006 as ''La Tyrannie de la Pénitence: Essai sur le Masochisme Occidental'' and in English in 2010. [[Roger Kimball]] regards ''Tyranny of Guilt'' as a sequel to Bruckner's 1983 book ''[[The Tears of the White Man]]''. [[Richard Wolin]] preferred to describe it as a "pendant," a revisiting of the theme of ''Tears of the White Man.'' | ||
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"Bruckner noemt de Cleveringa-lezing (2002) van burgemeester Cohen van Amsterdam, waarin hij zegt dat we "bepaalde groepen orthodoxe moslims [moeten] accepteren, die bewust hun vrouwen dicrimineren" omdat we "de samenleving bij elkaar moeten houden".[1] |
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The Tyranny of Guilt is a book by Pascal Bruckner published in French in 2006 as La Tyrannie de la Pénitence: Essai sur le Masochisme Occidental and in English in 2010. Roger Kimball regards Tyranny of Guilt as a sequel to Bruckner's 1983 book The Tears of the White Man. Richard Wolin preferred to describe it as a "pendant," a revisiting of the theme of Tears of the White Man.
Theme
Bruckner acknowledges Western sins including racism and slavery, but points out that the west is also responsible for the creation of such things as Civil liberties, modern democratic government and abolitionism. "There is no doubt," Bruckner writes, "that Europe has given birth to monsters, but at the same time it has given birth to theories that make it possible to understand and destroy these monsters." The problem with the tyranny of guilt, according to Bruckner, is not the West is without sin, but that the Western culture of remorse is a disabling form of narcissism that makes it impossible to effectively criticize contemporary non-Western violations of human rights.
Bruckner argues that the West has inadvertently collaborated with Islamists who seek to destroy Western liberal values and political freedom by focusing on western sins including imperialism, racism and Nazism, and thereby conceding the right of Islamists to impose their standards on the Western countries to which they immigrate. Julia Pascal summarizes part of Bruckner's argument as an argument that "Europe has never recovered from its own barbarity and that now it seeks to cleanse its original sin with a new Eden; even if this Paradise has 70 waiting virgins." Brendan Simms as, "an eagerness to apologize for the sins of colonialism and genocide and other Western crimes," that defines every Western state as a "penitent state ... never an innocent victim of terrorist attack but a deserving one: It has, after all, provoked the wrath of the oppressed, either at home or abroad."
Douglas Murray describes Bruckner's characterization of the tyranny of guilt as a form of self-flagellation, a kind of moral intoxicant that "People imbibe because they like it... It lifts them up and exalts them."
Narrative
According to Bruckner, the Islamo-Leftist pushing of the idea of the centrality of Western guilt in contemporary politics idea originated with the Socialist Workers Party (UK) party goal of replacing traditional Commmunism with a worldwide movement to "spearhead a new insurrection in the name of the oppressed." This ideal caught fire beginning in the 1960s, reinvigorating Western leftism with the idea that the United Sates and Israel are the great oppressors, and uniting the European Left, and the Islamic Republic of Iran in a world view according to which "the Jew has become the Nazi, the Palestinian the Jew and radical Islam is now the victim of Western democracy and not its executioner."
Bruckner sees the beginnings of the Islamization of Europe in such things as the institution of separate hours for men and women at public swimming pools.
Publishing history
The 2010 translation into (American) English was made by Steven Rendall.
