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André Glucksmann (born 1937) is a French philosopher and writer, and considered a member of the French new philosophers. He studied philosophy at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and he is the author of "Master Thinkers" (Harper & Row, 1980). He is part of the Cercle de l'Oratoire think tank.

Early Years

André Glucksmann was born in 1937, in Boulogne-Billancourt, the son of Austrian and Jewish parents. He studied in Lyon, and later enrolled in the elite and highly selective École Normale Supérieure de Saint Cloud. In 1968 he published his first book, Le Discours de Ia Guerre. In 1975 et publishes La Cuisinière le Mangeur d'Hommes, an assay on the State, the Marxism and the concentration camps, where he traced a parallel between Nazism and the communism. His books have greatly influenced contemporary thinking throughout Europe.

Political opinions

Glucksmann is a long-time supporter of Chechnyan independence, and was one of the few French intellectuals supporting the 2003 invasion of Iraq. [citation needed] He supported the right-wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy for the April-May 2007 presidential election [1].

Works

  • A Child's Rage (Une rage d'enfant) (2006)
  • The Discourse of Hate (Le Discours de la haine) (2004)
  • West Versus West (Ouest contre Ouest) (2003)
  • Dostoyevsky in Manhattan (Dostoïevski à Manhattan) (2002)
  • The Third Death of God (La Troisième Mort de Dieu) (2000)
  • Cyncism and Passion (Cynisme et passion) (1981/1999)
  • The Force of Vertigo (La Force du vertige) (1983).
  • The Master Thinkers (Les Maîtres penseurs) (1977)

References

  1. ^ Pourquoi je choisis Nicolas Sarkozy, Le Monde, 29 January 2007 Template:Fr icon
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