André Glucksmann

André Glucksmann (born 1937) is a prominent French philosopher and writer, and leading member of the French new philosophers. André Glucksmann was born in 1937, in Boulogne-Billancourt, the son of Austrian Jewish parents. He studied in Lyon, and later enrolled at École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud. His first book, Le Discours de Ia Guerre, was published in 1968. In 1975 he published the anti-Marxist book La Cuisinière le Mangeur d'Hommes, in... more

André Glucksmann (born 1937) is a prominent French philosopher and writer, and leading member of the French new philosophers. André Glucksmann was born in 1937, in Boulogne-Billancourt, the son of Austrian Jewish parents. He studied in Lyon, and later enrolled at École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud. His first book, Le Discours de Ia Guerre, was published in 1968. In 1975 he published the anti-Marxist book La Cuisinière le Mangeur d'Hommes, in which he argued that Marxism leads inevitably to totalitarianism, tracing parallels between the crimes of Nazism and Communism. In his next book Les maitres penseurs, published in 1977 and translated into English as "Master Thinkers" (Harper & Row, 1980), he traced the intellectual justification for totalitarianism back to the ideas articulated by various German philosophers i.e. Fichte, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. In "The Brothers Karamazov" and other works, Dostoevsky asserts that if God doesn't exist, then everything is permitted. In his... less