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Stanley Crouch and Daniel Pipes on Pascal Bruckner’s THE TYRANNY OF GUILT

by Andrew DeSio | Filed in: European History - Philosophy - Political Science - Twitter | 2:54pm EST

French novelist Pascal Bruckner’s provocative new book THE TYRANNY OF GUILT: Essays on Western Masochism is starting to catch on here in the States. Stanley Crouch reviewed the book in his The Daily Beast column and Daniel Pipes reviewed it on the National Review Online. Also, the book was reviewed two weeks ago int he Wall Street Journal by Brendan Simms.

Look out for Pascal’s forthcoming Fall 2010 book PERPETUAL EUPHORIA: On the Duty to Be Happy.

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On May 1st, 2010 at 3:10 am Dorian replied:

Hey,

i read the bookand i hate to say that i really enjoyed it (:

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