The eminent French philosopher André Glucksmann has died at the age of 78 years in the early hours of Tuesday. This was reported by the French France Info radio, citing the family circle.
Glucksmann had participated in the May Day demonstrations in 1968, was a convinced Marxist and Maoist militant before he developed a fundamental critique of totalitarianism in his philosophical disputes.
defenders of democracy and the market economy
He came from a Jewish family with roots in Eastern Europe, who emigrated to France. In the 70s he belongs as well as Bernard-Henri Lévy the “New Philosophers”, which broke with the left utopia and human rights discovered
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has a From the original Maoists and Communists defenders of democracy and the market economy. Glucksmann supported the war in Iraq and the independence of the Czech Republic.
In Germany, among others, the works of “cook and cannibals. About the relationship between the state, Marxism and concentration camps”, “philosophy of deterrence” and “hatred. The return of an elementary force” appeared from him.
Hollande acknowledges Glucksmann
After the news about Gluck’s death has French President François Hollande acknowledged the philosopher as a defender of the oppressed. He had always been committed to the suffering of the peoples, Hollande said on Twitter. Glucksmann did not resigned to the inevitability of wars, wrote the head of state in its assessment.
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