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September 16, 2015

A French Philosopher on Growing up Anti-Semitic and the Future of Europe

Pascal Bruckner’s oedipal philo-Semitism.

The French philosopher Pascal Bruckner is the son of a fierce anti-Semite who admired Hitler. He has recently written a book about his relationship with his father, entitled Un bon fils (“A Good Son”). The younger Bruckner claims that since his father “was very violent and mean to my mother, I eventually started to identify with the people he hated.” He now fears a very different kind of anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe, as David Mikics writes:

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