Pascal Bruckner

Biography

It passes its childhood between Austria, Switzerland and France. He studies in particular among Jesuits in Lyon.

He continues his studies in Paris, with the Lycée Henri-Iv (hypokhâgne and khâgne), with the Université of Paris I and with the Université of Paris VII, then with the practical École of the high studies.

Its thesis of doctorate, devoted to the sexual emancipation through the study of the thought of the utopian Socialist Charles Fourier, was directed by Roland Barthes.

Since 1986, he teaches in American universities, in particular that of New York. Since 1990, he is lecturer to the Institut of political studies of Paris. He collaborates in the Nouvel Observateur and the Monde .

Pascal Bruckner is a prolific writer, he initially illustrates at the sides of the “new philosophers”.

One retains of him: Bet, or the temptation of India , the Moons of gall (adapted to the screen by Roman Polanski), and the Robbers of beauty (Prix Renaudot in 1997). Among the tests, let us quote:

the Temptation of innocence (Prix Médicis of the test in 1995)
the Sob of the white man , influential load against the narcissistic and destroying drifts which would be, according to him, those of the Tiers-mondisme
the Tyranny of penitence: Test on the masochism in Occident , published in October 2006, is a test on the Western Masochisme and the car permanent Flagellation of Europeans.

These publications make of him a representative of the Néo-conservatism in France.

From 1983 to 1988, he was member of the board of directors of Action against the hunger.

In March 2003, member of a think tank (the Cercle of the Oratory) it defends the military intervention in Iraq in a article published in Le Monde , cosigné with a group of intellectuals, in particular Romain Goupil and André Glucksmann, which will take part, three years later, with the creation of the review of néo-preserving orientation Brave New World . This publication originates in the Circle of the Oratory (in reference to the Temple of the Oratory of Louvre where this think tank meets). Pascal Bruckner contributes to it actively.

Quotations

Europe rather overcame its monsters, slavery was abolished, given up colonialism, Fascism demolishes, the Communism put at knees by KB. Which continent can post such an assessment?
As there are preachers of hatred in the radical Islam, there are preachers of shame in our democracies, especially at the thinking elites.
There mosques in Rome, but are there are churches with Mecque, Djedda, Riyadh? Isn't it worth to better be Moslem in Düsseldorf or Paris only Christian in Cairo or Karachi?
Switzerland shows the way in Europe hardening its legislation against immigration, if I dare to say. It is a question of good senses. Let us start by integrating our immigrants, by making of them Suisses truths, French truths or Spanish truths, before letting some enter of others .
The rout of the illusion is always the open door with the miracles.
Television impoverishes our perception, it us désapprend to look at the world.

Articles

Five articles concerning Balkans. 1992-1999
All culprits? Le Monde , 9/25/2001
blackmail with the islamophobie Le Figaro , 11/5/2003
the two blasphemies Release , 3/6/2006
is it Necessary to have shame to be French? the Express train , 9/21/2006
'' Y does it have a fundamentalism of the Lights? '', re-examined Brave New World, n°4, 2007.
" Fadela Amara had thousand times reason! " Reaction of the philosopher on test DNA and its opposition to the Mariani amendment.

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