Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Philosophy: André Glucksmann is dead – ZEIT ONLINE

He was one of the most important philosophers of the present, known for his criticism of communism and totalitarianism: André Glucksmann has died in Paris.

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The philosopher André Glucksmann, 2009 in Rome © Riccardo De Luca / dpa

“My First and best friend is no more. ” With these words, Raphaël Glucksmann has made death his father publicly. André Glucksmann had died on Monday night at the age of 78 years in Paris. The journalist was one of the most important French philosophers of our time. “My father was a good and brilliant man,” his son recalls. With him he had just “do it all” and “do nothing” can.

Glucksmann came from a Jewish family with roots in Eastern Europe, who emigrated to France. Like his compatriot Bernard-Henri Lévy, he also belonged to the movement of the New Philosophers who after 1968 turned away from Marxism and developed to critics of communism and totalitarianism. Also Glucksmann went from being a Maoist and Communist defender of democracy and market economy

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He later expanded its anti-totalitarian model declaration on terrorism at. He repeatedly urged Western states to intervene to protect the civilian population in armed conflicts. He supported, inter alia, the war in Iraq.

In Germany, he was best known for his 1976 published in German translation book cook and cannibals . About the relationship between the state, Marxism and concentration camps . Full under the influence of Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago he expects it from with Stalinism. Published are also philosophy of deterrence and hatred. The return of an elementary force . Glucksmann was also a connoisseur of German philosophy and culture, and often present as interview and discussion partners in the German media.

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