F or many people, the Covid pandemic lockdown meant “the triumph of fear and the paradoxical enjoyment of a fettered life.” That’s what Pascal Bruckner contends in The Triumph of the Slippers: On the Withdrawal from the World, which I read in manuscript and am happy to mention here.It’s a short book, just over one hundred pages long, by one of France’s most discerning social thinkers. More @Wikipedia
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