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  • by Alain Finkielkraut
    £28.99

    Presents a collection of essays on the Balkan crisis and on European reaction to it. In opposition to many powerful figures in France, Alain Finkielkraut has largely supported the Croatian struggles for sovereignty. He argues against an array of outmoded views of the Balkan region and its political and cultural conditions.

  • - Reflections on the Question of Genocide
    by Alain Finkielkraut
    £28.99

    Examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent "revisionist" attempts to deny its full dimensions and, in some cases, its very existence as historical fact. This title is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and of genocidal politics and thought in our century.

  • - A Conversation with Aude Lancelin
    by Alain Badiou & Alain Finkielkraut
    £45.49

    * Alain Badiou is probably the most widely read and influential philosopher in France today. Alain Finkielkraut is also a well-known public intellectual in France * Both have attracted controversy in the past and they hold strongly contrasting political views.

  • - The Klaus Barbie Trial and Crimes Against Humanity
    by Alain Finkielkraut
    £39.99

    The author argues that the Barbie trial attests to the failure of international society to take responsibility for crimes of the state. He maintains that trying Barbie for actions on which the statute of limitations had run out blurred the definition of crimes against humanity.

  • - Reflections on the Twentieth Century
    by Alain Finkielkraut
    £39.99

    An unsettling reflection on the twentieth century in its twilight hours in which we are asked to rethink our assumptions about universalism and humanism. While many people look to humanist ideals as a deterrent to nationalist chauvinism, Finkielkraut challenges the abstract idea of universalism by describing the terrible crimes "civilized" Europe has committed in its name.

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