{"product_id":"the-fanaticism-of-the-apocalypse-save-the-earth-punish-human-beings-paperback-softback-9780745669779","title":"The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse; Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745669779","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Fanaticism of the Apocalypse\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSave the Earth, Punish Human Beings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePascal Bruckner (Author), Steven Rendall (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745669779, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 September 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.3 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As stylistically gratifying as he is intellectually lucid, Bruckner presents a clear alternative to the accepted thought on one of this era's hottest topics.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A sizzling new polemic against apocalyptic environmentalism.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The best tonic for stale science communications I've read in a while.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCool Green Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Pascal Bruckner is a brilliant writer – astute, learned, broad-ranging, mordant, sometimes mischievous, and sometimes prophetic. He is one of the handful of writers around the world who define the intellectual history of our time.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003ePaul Berman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Flight of the Intellectuals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"With his usual verve and eloquence, in \u003ci\u003eThe Fanaticism of the Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e Pascal Bruckner offers a bracing and provocative critique of an ever-more-pervasive and fanatical Green politics and ideology. For Bruckner, the ecological catastrophism the latter promotes constitutes less a salutary call to action than a return to the politics of guilt encouraged by exhausted ideologies, religions, and religious institutions, the Catholic Church in particular. This book will please some and consternate others, but its intelligence and originality make it an important book for our times.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRichard Golsan, Texas A\u0026amp;M University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"For anyone who has had enough of being harangued for single-handedly destroying the planet for future generations, Pascal Bruckner's new book will come as a welcome breath of fresh and unpolluted air.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNormandie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to ‘save the planet’ and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Modern society’s susceptibility to this kind of thinking derives from what Bruckner calls “the seductive attraction of disaster,” as exemplified by the popular appeal of disaster movies. But ecological catastrophism is harmful in that it draws attention away from other, more solvable problems and injustices in the world in order to focus on something that is portrayed as an Apocalypse.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rather than preaching catastrophe and pessimism, we need to develop a democratic and generous ecology that addresses specific problems in a practical way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Return of Original Sin 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Seductive Attraction of Disaster 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Give Me Back My Enemy 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Have the Courage to be Afraid 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Blackmailing Future Generations 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Progressives Against Progress 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Last Avatar of Prometheus? 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Nature, a Cruel Stepmother or a Victim? 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Science in the Age of Suspicion 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III The Great Ascetic Regression 133\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Humanity on a Strict Diet 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Poverty of Maceration 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Noble Savage in the Lucerne 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: The Remedy is Found in the Disease 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 187\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52501432041752,"sku":"9780745669779","price":12.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745669779.jpg?v=1786238294","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-fanaticism-of-the-apocalypse-save-the-earth-punish-human-beings-paperback-softback-9780745669779","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}