{"product_id":"the-fanaticism-of-the-apocalypse-9780745669779","title":"The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865706934615,"sku":"9780745669779","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745669779.jpg?v=1722275199","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-fanaticism-of-the-apocalypse-9780745669779","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}