Pascal Bruckner
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Pascal Bruckner (French: [bʁyknɛʁ]; born 15 December 1948, in Paris) is a French writer, one of the "New Philosophers" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Much of his work has been devoted to critiques of French society and culture.[1]
Biography
Bruckner attended
After studies at the universities of
Bruckner began writing in the vein of the
From 1992 to 1999, Bruckner was a supporter of the Croatian, Bosniak and Albanian causes in the Yugoslav Wars, and endorsed the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. In 2003, he supported the Iraq War, but later criticized the mistakes of the U.S. military and the use of torture in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.[citation needed]
In 2009, he signed a petition in support of Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.[3]
Le Sanglot de l'homme blanc
La Tyrannie de la pénitence
Bruckner's 2006 work La Tyrannie de la pénitence: Essai sur le masochisme Occidental (The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism) focuses on the origin and political impact of the contemporary political culture of Western guilt.[4][5]
Criticism of multicultural ethnocentrism
Bruckner's polemic stance against the ethnocentric nature of some discourses of
Un bon fils
Bruckner's book, Un bon fils, was translated and published in English in 2016, under the title A Dutiful Son. It was first published in France in 2014.[7]
The memoir "charts his journey from pious Catholic child to leading philosopher and writer on French culture. The key figure in Bruckner's life is his father, a virulent anti-Semite, who voluntarily went to work in Germany during the Second World War. He is a violent man who beats his wife. The young Bruckner soon reacts against his father and his revenge is to become his polar opposite, even to the point of being happy to be called a ‘Jewish thinker’, which he is not. ‘My father helped me to think better by thinking against him. I am his defeat.’ Despite this opposition, he remains tied to his father to the very end. He has other ‘fathers’, men such as Sartre, Vladimir Jankélévitch and Roland Barthes who fostered his philosophical development, and describes his friendship with his ‘philosophical twin brother’, Alain Finkielkraut."[8]
Books
- Parias: roman, Seuil, 1985, ISBN 978-2-02-008732-2.
- ISBN 978-2-02-005856-8.
- Evil angels: a novel, Grove Press, 1987, ISBN 978-0-394-54138-9.
- Les Voleurs de beauté: roman, B. Grasset, 1997.
- ISBN 978-2-02-013215-2.
- The Divine Child, Rupa & Co., 2005, ISBN 978-81-291-0302-4.
- ISBN 978-2-253-13927-0.
- Temptation of innocence. Algora Publishing. 2000. ISBN 978-1-892941-56-5.
- ISBN 978-0-02-904160-4.
- ISBN 978-0-02-904160-4.
- ISBN 978-2-246-64161-2.
- The Tyranny of Guilt. Translator Steven Rendall. Princeton University Press. 2010. )
- Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy. translator Steven Rendall. Princeton University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-691-14373-6.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link - The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings, translator Steven Rendall =ISBN 9780745669762.
- The Paradox of Love, translator Steven Rendall, Princeton University Press, 2012, ISBN 9780691149141.
- Has Marriage for Love Failed?, translators Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal, Polity Books, 2013, ISBN 9780745669786.
- An Imaginary Racism: Islamophobia and Guilt, translator Steven Rendall, Cambridge, UK, Medford, MA, Polity Books, 2018. ISBN 9781509530663[10]
- They Stole our Beauty, translator Stuart Bell, The 87 Press, 2019. ISBN 9781916477414[11]
References
- ^ "Pascal Bruckner: "En montagne, tout le monde est spontanément conservateur"". LEFIGARO (in French). 28 January 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ Bruckner, Pascal (2013). Against Environmental Panic," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 June 2013, accessed 29 June 2013
- ^ "Signez la pétition pour Roman Polanski !". La Règle du jeu (in French). 10 November 2009. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
- ^ Pipes, Daniel (27 April 2010). "In Europe, Remorse Has Turned to Masochism". Daniel Pipes. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ Pipes, Daniel (29 December 2015). "The Danger of Partial No-go Zones to Europe". Daniel Pipes. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ a b c Pascal Bruckner, Enlightenment Fundamentalism or Racism of the Anti-Racists?, appeared originally in German in the online magazine Perlentaucher on 24 January 2007. (in English)
- ^ Goodreads. "A Dutiful Son by Pascal Bruckner". Goodreads.
- ^ Barnes & Noble. "A Dutiful Son". Barnes & Noble.
- ^ PolityBooks.com Archived 27 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-1-5095-3066-3.
- ISBN 978-1-9164774-1-4.
External links
- The Asterix complex, interview with Pascal Bruckner at signandsight.com
- Pascal Bruckner at perlentaucher.de – das Kulturmagazin (in German)
- Boycott Durban II By Pascal Bruckner, 16 June 2008
- Philosophy: Pushing the Limits. An Interview with Pascal Bruckner. Listen or download Bruckner interviewed by JK Fowler on February 26, 2011.
- On Islamic Terrorism: Interview for Croatian Television, November 2015 (French). http://www.hrt.hr/309915/vijesti/bruckner-za-hrt-dio-francuskih-muslimana-odlucio-se-odcijepiti-od-drustva
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