L'identité malheureuse [French]

By Alain Finkielkraut

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Alain Finkielkraut pursues his impassioned confrontation with modern life. Tackling questions of national identity, immigration, secularity, schooling, lifestyle, customs and inequalities between different civilisations, his thoughts break with right-thinking received ideas but carve out their own original path. No contemporary idols, fashionable terms or ways of thinking influence him or blind him to the raw facts: the fact that societies are disintegrating because of a process of disidentification and an obsession with all things new. The whirlwind we find ourselves in and our slavish youth culture hold no weight for him, and yet he does side with all things modern and he adheres to enlightened rather than counter-revolutionary thinking. He speaks to the modern world as a modern man, and what he says is: stop blinding yourselves.

Alain Finkielkraut is a professor of general culture at the cole polytechnique, and he presents R pliques for France Culture. Stock recently published his Un coeur intelligent (2009) and Et si l'amour durait (2011). His confrontation with all things modern spawned a book published by ditions Ellipses in 2005: Nous autres, modernes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2234073367
• ISBN13: 9782234073364
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Stock
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.5"