Translation of: Ensauvagement : le retour de la barbarie au XXIe siècle.

The telescope: Political responsibility ; The pleasure principle ; Ensavagement ; The corruption of principles -- 1905: Portents ; The birth of modernity ; An unforeseeable actor ; Against the grain -- The world in 2025: Foresight and memory ; Three bets for the future ; Open questions -- Back in 2005: The scene in 2005 ; Russia as it is ; The two Chinas ; North Korean blackmail ; The choice of the peoples ; The unity of the Western camp ; Rethinking nuclear weapons -- Epilogue: The human soul torn to pieces.