The Temptation of Innocence

A book against depression, existential angst, cry-babies and whining "victims", "The Temptation of Innnocence" was awarded the prestigious Le Grand Prix de l'Acadmie Franaise and the Medici Prize for Essays. The author, acclaimed French essayist and novelist Pascal Bruckner, also received the Renaudot Prize in 1997. (Philosophy)

Introduction: The Incredible Shrinking Man

5

(10)

PART I --- IS BABYHOOD MAN'S FUTURE?

15

(106)

The Victory of the Individual, or Crowning the King of Dust

17

(30)

Be yourself---that is, guilty

19

(6)

In the dock

25

(3)

A Pyrrhic victory

28

(4)

All equal, all enemies

32

(4)

The clone syndrome

36

(4)

Tired of being ourselves

40

(7)

Re-Enchanting the World

47

(42)

Irrefutable abundance

48

(4)

Perpetual Easter

52

(3)

Sublime stupidities

55

(5)

Everything, and right away!

60

(1)

Happiness is a good inheritance

61

(3)

Insatiable demand

64

(3)

Life is a party

67

(3)

A sedative for the eyes

70

(3)

Universal consolation

73

(3)

The routine as a route to re-enchantment

76

(3)

Consumers are not the same as citizens

79

(5)

The puerile land of plenty

84

(5)

Tiny Little Grownups

89

(32)

The good savage in residence

90

(4)

His Majesty the Baby

94

(3)

From child-citizen to citizen-child

97

(4)

It's so hard being an adult

101

(5)

Too much of Toyland

106

(2)

The seduction of Kitsch

108

(3)

Be yourself

111

(2)

I deserve it

113

(8)

PART II---A THIRST FOR PERSECUTION

121

(92)

Joining the Elect, by Suffering

123

(36)

The marketing of affliction

124

(3)

We are all cursed

127

(8)

Don't judge me!

135

(4)

Toward a holy family of victims?

139

(7)

A thirst for persecution

146

(4)

Comfort in defeat

150

(9)

The New War of Secession (between Men and Women)

159

(54)

From Hitler to Playboy

160

(1)

Female dictatorship

161

(4)

Freedom, equality, irresponsibility

165

(7)

My roots, my ghetto

172

(5)

Forgetting where you come from

177

(4)

Women as flowers, and the pornocrats

181

(4)

Eros bound

185

(6)

Curing the heart of itself

191

(6)

Being seductive, or being frank

197

(4)

Complicity or deafness

201

(12)

PART III---VICTIMIST COMPETITION

213

(94)

The Innocence of the Torturer (The victim, in Serb propaganda)

215

(42)

A fundamental error

216

(3)

The exaltation of defeat

219

(4)

Genocide as a rhetorical device

223

(4)

A false assimilation

227

(1)

The Jew as both competitor and role model

228

(4)

Everyone is against the Serbs

232

(4)

The right to revenge

236

(5)

Thieves of distress

241

(2)

Angelic killers

243

(14)

The Arbitrary Reign of the Heart (The misadventures of pity)

257

(50)

The Law of Flexible Fraternity

258

(1)

Routine insults

258

(3)

Pain: upping the ante

261

(2)

The impotent image

263

(3)

Intermittencies of the heart

266

(4)

A big spoon

270

(1)

Skimming or selecting

271

(3)

Loving Indigence

274

(1)

The transcendence of the victim

274

(5)

The actor's pain

279

(3)

A narcissistic commotion

282

(3)

Sainthood without the hardship

285

(3)

Extraneous People

288

(1)

The pact of tears

288

(3)

Compassion as a form of contempt

291

(4)

The menu approach

295

(2)

Revising history

297

(10)

Conclusion: A narrow door for revolt

307

(12)

The sense of indebtedness

310

(2)

The chaos of misfortunes

312

(3)

Inevitable disappointment

315

(4)

List of insets

319

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