by André Glucksmann · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246310518
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«La force du vertige» is André Glucksmann's essay on nuclear deterrence, published by Bernard Grasset in 1983 (336 pages, in French).
The author examines nuclear deterrence and that «force of vertigo» which, before actual destruction, acts on minds as a psychological and political threat. In the midst of the Cold War, he analyses the challenge of the Euromissiles, the division of the churches and pacifism as a nihilistic temptation for a Europe undecided between two blocs.
The essay was published in Paris; the Library of Congress classifies it under strategy and nuclear disarmament (U162.6 .G58x 1984).
For readers interested in political philosophy, French thought and the debate on nuclear deterrence in the Cold War.
André Glucksmann was a French philosopher, activist, and writer. He was a leading figure of the new philosophers. Glucksmann began his career as a Marxist, who went on to reject Marxism–Leninism and real socialism in the popular book La Cuisinière et le Mangeur d'Hommes (1975), and later became an anti-Communist and outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russian foreign policy. He was a strong supporter of human rights. In later years, he opposed the claim that Islamic terrorism is the product of the clash of civilizations between Islam and the Western world.
