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Watch France Fall
In June of 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron “threw a hand grenade” into the National Assembly by dissolving it to make sure the far right did not assume majority. The consequences of Macron’s decisions have been catastrophic. Pascal Bruckner discusses in this essay the immediate fall out from Macron’s ill advised action.
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The Return of the Enemy
French essayist and public figure Pascal Bruckner looks at the dissolution and creation of enemies after the end of the Cold War and the rise of Putin in Russia in \"The Return of the Enemy\". In a biting commentary on the loss of the simple First/Third World structure that marked the global world order before the fall of the Soviet Union, Bruckner exposes the chaos and corruption that has resulted from the power vacuum and also the resuscitation of former ghosts through Putin's use of rhetoric taken from despotic figures like Stalin and Hitler. Bruckner argues that all of the rejoicing with the fall of the Iron Curtain has only made it harder to define the enemy and has allowed those like Putin to return to authoritarian practices of the past and create new monsters.
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The triumph of the slippers : on the withdrawal from the world
\"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 supplants and replaces the world, a wired cocoon that gradually renders any journey to the outside world superfluous. From our couch, we can enjoy remotely the pleasures once offered by the cinema, the theatre and the café. Everything, from food to love to art, can be delivered to your door. Armed with a smartphone and a Netflix account, why would anyone risk life and limb to venture out to the cinema? Compulsory confinement, the nightmare of the pandemic years, seems to have been replaced by voluntary self-confinement. Fleeing from the cities, working remotely, relinquishing travel and tourism, we risk becoming reclusive creatures that cower at the slightest tremor. In this witty and spirited book, Pascal Bruckner takes aim at today's voluntary seclusionism and the self-inflicted atrophy that comes with it, tracing its philosophical contours and historical roots. It is no longer the tyranny of lockdowns that threatens us but rather the tyranny of the sofa: will the slipper and the dressing gown be the new symbols of tomorrow's world?\"--Amazon.com.
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Temptation Of Innocence
A handbook on how to live right and an antidote for today's Prozac society, the book decries today's evasions and prevarications, the \"poor-little-me\" mentality that allows us to cop out when we should be taking responsibility for shaping our lives.
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The Paradox of Love
The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought--birth control, the decriminalization of abortion, the liberalization of divorce, greater equality between the sexes, women's massive entry into the workforce, and more tolerance of homosexuality. But as Pascal Bruckner, one of France's leading writers, argues in this lively and provocative reflection on the contradictions of modern love, our new freedoms have also brought new burdens and rules--without, however, wiping out the old rules, emotions, desires, and arrangements: the couple, marriage, jealousy, the demand for fidelity, the war between constancy and inconstancy. It is no wonder that love, sex, and relationships today are so confusing, so difficult, and so paradoxical.
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