The Tears of the White Man: Compassion As Contempt by Pascal Bruckner

The Tears of the White Man: Compassion As Contempt

Pascal Bruckner

244 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging reflective slow-paced
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In this imaginatively argued essay Bruckner lambasts Western attitudes toward the Third World as being characterized by guilt, hypocrisy, and paternalism. Bruckner is exasperated by those who unquestioningly label the industrial nations "exploiter...

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