From 1992 to 1999, Bruckner was a supporter of the Croatian, Bosniak and Albanian causes in the Yugoslav Wars, and endorsed the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.

Bruckner's 2006 work La Tyrannie de la pénitence: Essai sur le masochisme Occidental (The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism) focuses on the origin and political impact of the contemporary political culture of Western guilt.

"[6] Bruckner agrees that the history of the twentieth century attests to the potential of modernity for fanaticism, but argues that the modern thought that issued from the Enlightenment proved capable of criticizing its own errors, and that "Denouncing the excesses of the Enlightenment in the concepts that it forged means being true to its spirit.

[7] The memoir "charts his journey from pious Catholic child to leading philosopher and writer on French culture.

The key figure in Bruckner's life is his father, a virulent anti-Semite, who voluntarily went to work in Germany during the Second World War.

The young Bruckner soon reacts against his father and his revenge is to become his polar opposite, even to the point of being happy to be called a ‘Jewish thinker’, which he is not.