Pascal Bruckner
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Pascal Bruckner (2017)
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| Born |
15 December 1948 Paris, France |
| Alma mater |
Paris I Paris VII Diderot École Pratique des Hautes Études |
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20th-century philosophy 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School |
Continental philosophy Nouveaux Philosophes |
| Institutions | Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris |
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Notable ideas
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Criticism of the "White Man's Burden" concept |
Pascal Bruckner (French: [bʁyknɛʁ]; born 15 December 1948 in Paris) is a French writer, one of the "New Philosophers" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Much of his work has been devoted to critiques of French society and culture.
Bruckner attended Jesuit schools in his youth.
After studies at the universities of Paris I and Paris VII Diderot, and then at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Bruckner became maître de conférences at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and a contributor to the Nouvel Observateur.
Bruckner began writing in the vein of the nouveaux philosophes or New Philosophers. He published Parias (Parias), Lunes de fiel (Evil Angels) (adapted as a film by Roman Polanski) and Les voleurs de beauté (The Beauty Stealers) (Prix Renaudot in 1997). Among his essays are La tentation de l'innocence ("The Temptation of Innocence," Prix Médicis in 1995) and, famously, Le Sanglot de l'Homme blanc (The Tears of the White Man), an attack on narcissistic and destructive policies intended to benefit the Third World, and more recently "La tyrannie de la pénitence" (2006), an essay on the West's endless self-criticism, translated as "The Tyranny of Guilt" (2010).
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