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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Pascal Bruckner , Cory StockwellPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press Dimensions: Width: 19.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.284kg ISBN: 9781509559527ISBN 10: 1509559523 Pages: 118 Publication Date: 26 April 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews“The world goes to hell in a handcart. We take refuge indoors: utopia is privatized. Pascal Bruckner watches, in his slippers, issuing these missals. If he is right, we are in trouble. How do we recover the public from civic involution, and the crippling sense of fear? These are some of the questions opened in this book. Be provoked! Be irritated! Be stimulated! Step outside!” Peter Beilharz, Sichuan University “We're in an age of sterility, Pascal Bruckner says, when fear and lassitude send the young to their rooms and attach them to screens. The lockdowns merely hastened a process of withdrawal that has proceeded for a long time. Bruckner details this condition with a surgical eye, explaining the deeper currents of present malaise. Every page has wisdom worth memorizing – 'All of today’s technologies encourage incarceration under the guise of openness,' 'Totalitarian powers have always wanted to govern the dreams of their citizens' ... It is a dark vision, but the first step toward the light is a clearsighted understanding of where one sits.” Mark Bauerlein, Emory University “Born of the pandemic, Pascal Bruckner’s The Triumph of the Slippers is a wonderfully thoughtful and subtle meditation on the psychological, social, and cultural impact of the Covid pandemic, and a provocative diagnosis of a ‘spiritual long Covid’ with which many – if not most – of us still live today. Eloquently written like all of Bruckner’s work, The Triumph of the Slippers is the work of a French moraliste at the top of his form, combining the erudition and irony of the perceptive philosopher with the sensitivity and craft of the gifted novelist. Highly recommended.” Richard Golsan, Texas A&M University Author InformationPascal Bruckner is the bestselling author of many books including The Tyranny of Guilt, Perpetual Euphoria and The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |