Bøger af Alain Finkielkraut

Vores tid er domineret af en systematisk tildækning af verdens grimhed og skønhed, ifølge den franske filosof Alain Finkielkraut.- Vi er trådt ind i den post-litterære tidsalder. Den tid, hvor det litterære verdenssyn havde en plads i verden, synes i realiteten at være forbi. Ikke at inspirationen pludselig er tørret ud for evigt. Der bliver stadig skrevet rigtige bøger. Men de sætter ikke længere noget aftryk. De har ikke længere en dannende funktion. Sjælens opdragelse er ikke længere bøgernes gebet. I sin kamp mod løgnen er kunsten ved at tabe. – Alain FinkielkrautOm forfatterenAlain Finkielkraut er en af Frankrigs mest toneangivende filosoffer, medlem af Det Franske Akademi. Hans nylig afdøde ven Milan Kundera har sagt om ham, at han er "en mand, som føler et utæmmeligt behov for at hæve stemmen, hvis han støder på fænomener, der slår ham som stupide eller uretfærdige".

A passionate critique of Enlightenment--both in its contemporary invocation and its historical and cultural use--and a call to arms to rethink human equality and liberty without the sacrifice of individual rights and ethnicities.

* Alain Badiou is probably the most widely read and influential philosopher in France today. Alain Finkielkraut is also a well-known public intellectual in France * Both have attracted controversy in the past and they hold strongly contrasting political views.

Presents a collection of essays on the Balkan crisis and on European reaction to it. In opposition to many powerful figures in France, Alain Finkielkraut has largely supported the Croatian struggles for sovereignty. He argues against an array of outmoded views of the Balkan region and its political and cultural conditions.

Examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent "revisionist" attempts to deny its full dimensions and, in some cases, its very existence as historical fact. This title is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and of genocidal politics and thought in our century.

The author argues that the Barbie trial attests to the failure of international society to take responsibility for crimes of the state. He maintains that trying Barbie for actions on which the statute of limitations had run out blurred the definition of crimes against humanity.

An unsettling reflection on the twentieth century in its twilight hours in which we are asked to rethink our assumptions about universalism and humanism. While many people look to humanist ideals as a deterrent to nationalist chauvinism, Finkielkraut challenges the abstract idea of universalism by describing the terrible crimes "civilized" Europe has committed in its name.

The Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. This title decodes the shifts in anti-Semitism at the end of the Cold War, chronicles the impact of Israel's policies on European Jews, opposes arguments both for and against cultural assimilation, and reopens questions about Marx and Judaism.