An exciting book:
With racy style and colorful expressions that characterizes Alain Finkielkraut, destroyer of our ideas are up in arms against "culturalism" of refraining from judgment by repect specific cultural differences. It traces the evolution and historically universalist ideas face this culturalism.
With catastrophism somewhat exaggerated and icnoclaste mind, he finally goes beyond the scope of culture to situate the level of ideas and demonstrates how renouncing the universal ideas from our civilsation LumiƩres including denial of ethnocentrism and the grounds respect for other cultures, finally encloses the individual in his identity.
A test that has not lost its relevance and actually brilliantly illuminates the debate of communalism (particular).