On the death of André Glucksmann: indifference is a crime – Tagesspiegel

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Only left renegade, then angry moralist and defenders of the market economy: the death of the French philosopher André Glucksmann.

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If he was a philosopher, he was a philosopher in spite of himself. “The supposedly intellectual issues are not reserved for the intellectuals,” André Glucksmann wrote in his memoirs “anger of a child, anger of a life”, the formation of which severity this assertion, however, immediately questioned. At the same time he believed “that the bearer of this glorious title could count on one hand. Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel. “The title of it was also so contrary, because many professors that only clad in his eyes that she exaggerated her Marxist-Leninist mischief under the guise of neutral science.

What was he? Primarily it was probably a French moralist who is complaining that the failure-prone instance of conscience for his thoughts and actions, and secondarily a left renegade who did not want to belong to the right, but missed no opportunity to denounce his former comrades – and the with original voltes. In 2007, he spoke in favor of the election of Nicolas Sarkozy with the argument made that this is programmatically the left closest

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But it was only in retrospect, Glucksmann stylized to the independent spirit that he wanted to be always been. His KPF membership, which ended with the party in 1957 excluded him because of his protest against the suppression of the Hungarian uprising, is not even mentioned in the memoirs. The months as “Anarchomaoist” after May 1968 are barely referenced. In an interview he explained it to youthful temper. The time with Jean-Paul Sartre on the part of the Gauche prolétarienne: an episode. The political turnaround at the beginning of the seventies: a trifle. It was as if the nouveaux philosophes, in whose circle he came to fame, just waiting for him.

The great thinkers were for Glucksmann responsible for the tyrannies of the 20th century

His first book “Discours de la guerre” (1967) had arisen still under the wing of its liberal teacher Raymond Aron. The anti-communist studies that followed were of polemischerem blank. “Cook and cannibals” was a study “On the relationship between the state, Marxism and concentration camps”. “The Master Thinkers” (1977) finally reflected wordy sprawling the responsibility of Fichte, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche for the tyrannies of the 20th century. Glucksmann brought up not only against the Stalinist left in position, but also against a concept of truth with Jacobean consequences. From the Siberian prison camps to the right of torture dictatorship Pinochet – the thinkers contributed their fault

Thus, he and Bernard-Henri Lévy, the only others did, from the circle, the one in this country still knows, a name. who led them to the television – and with those who sought to overcome in their own way the left blindness, enemies. Unless Glucksmann attacking philosophy as a system, they had long since disappeared basically. And as far as he analyzed state repression, he held fast to a notion of power that has been seen much more differentiated in the microstructural projects of post-structuralists. Therefore Michel Foucault or Jean-François Lyotard talked a distant relationship to the nouveaux philosophes. They “operate a martyrology,” said about Gilles Deleuze. “They live on carcasses.”

From childhood on, he led a life between the German and the French language

Biographical can be explained in the Glucksmann. Born in 1937 in Boulogne-Billancourt, he managed to survive in Vichy France. As a four year old he was interned along with his mother Martha and her sister Micky camp Bourg-Lastic, to be handed over to the Nazis. Only the intrepid mother made sure that they were non-Jews slammed in the selection.

Unlike his two still-born in Austria older sisters him jus soli gave the privilege of French citizenship, and the name Joseph “Jojo” Rivière disguised his Jewish origins. At the name Glucksmann he had to after the war also used as the first name André, had given him in memory of the Hamburg Communists Edgar André his mother. Since childhood he led a life between the German and the French language – and one as an orphan. Rubin, his father was originally from Czernowitz, 1940 went on a torpedoed ship in the English Channel.