Even his Parisian apartment, with its creaking floorboards and worn books that filled every available angle, was a statement. André Glucksmann not resided in narcissistic Rive Gauche milieu of intellectuals and artists, but on the other side of the Seine, in modest 10th arrondissement. Here died one of the most important but also most controversial philosophers France in the early hours of Tuesday at the age of 78 years.
The French and soon the world got to know the man with the unmistakable, last gray mane know the mid-70s. In May 1968, Glucksmann had gone still with Jean-Paul Sartre on the road, had longed for as a convinced communist and ardent admirer of Mao Zedong, the world proletarian revolution. But now he confessed his error publicly and warned of the red totalitarianism. Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” have opened his eyes, he confessed.
In the future, joined Glucksmann as one of the spokesmen of the “new philosophers”, which had broken with Communism. But few did so as radical as he. The fight against despotism and for humanity made up from now on the core of his philosophical treatises -. The most to angry statements came
Glucksmann, who came in 1937 in France as a child of Eastern European Jews to the world, let no excuses apply for inaction. He repeatedly denounced Europe’s policy of non-intervention, he advocated the intervention in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Libya and reckoned hard with the German pacifists from. He always warned against naivete, even when it comes to terrorism. “We must understand that this war is not only to win debates,” he said in 2006 in an interview with our editorial staff
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