In a world which has lost its transcendental significance, cultural identity serves to sanction those barbarous traditions which God is no longer in a position to endorse. Fanaticism is indefensible when it appeals to heaven, but beyond reproach when it is grounded in antiquity and cultural distinctiveness.


The Undoing of Thought (1988)

Alain Finkielkraut Quotes

In a world which has lost its transcendental significance, cultural identity serves to sanction those barbarous traditions which God is no longer in...

In a world which has lost its transcendental significance, cultural identity serves to sanction those barbarous traditions which God is no longer in...

In a world which has lost its transcendental significance, cultural identity serves to sanction those barbarous traditions which God is no longer in...

In a world which has lost its transcendental significance, cultural identity serves to sanction those barbarous traditions which God is no longer in...