The destruction of the World Trade Towers demonstrates the horrifying consequences of a terrorist strike. But as technological advances make weapons of mass destruction frighteningly easy to acquire, a revolution is occurring in the very nature of terrorism--one that may make th…
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The destruction of the World Trade Towers demonstrates the horrifying consequences of a terrorist strike. But as technological advances make weapons of mass destruction frighteningly easy to acquire, a revolution is occurring in the very nature of terrorism--one that may make th…
"In The New Terrorism Walter Laqueur, one of the foremost experts on terrorism and international strategic affairs, recounts the history of terrorism and, more importantly, examines the future of terrorist activity worldwide. Laqueur argues that as a new quasi-religious extreme …
E.M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history?focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science?in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization i…
E.M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history?focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science?in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization i…
Réédition du premier essai de Cioran (1949). Obnubilé par le déclin de l'Occident, considérant les idéologies et les doctrines comme des "farces sanglantes", cet auteur a sans doute droit au titre de premier "Nouveau philosophe". Une pensée lucide, cynique, qu'on comprend mieux …
"Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America's leading political thinkers. His new book presents bigotry as a systematic, all-encompassing mindset that has a special affinity for right-wing movements. In what will surely prove a seminal study, Bronner…
Ecrasez l'infâme! Voltaire's rallying cry against fanaticism resonates with new force today. Nothing suggests the complex legacy of the Enlightenment more than the struggle of superstition, prejudice, and intolerance advocated by most of the Enlightenment philosophers, regardles…