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EAN : 9782259203555
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 300
Size : 140 x 225 mm
A child's rage

Release date : 16/03/2006

For the first time, André Glucksmann reveals how his childhood as a Jewish orphan born during the war and other events of the 20th century have shaped the foundations of his entire philosophy. Through his eyes, we experience May 68, Danzig and Prague, encounter Sartre, Aron, Soljenitsyn, Vaclav Havel, and...

For the first time, André Glucksmann reveals how his childhood as a Jewish orphan born during the war and other events of the 20th century have shaped the foundations of his entire philosophy. Through his eyes, we experience May 68, Danzig and Prague, encounter Sartre, Aron, Soljenitsyn, Vaclav Havel, and the commandant Massoud, and consider Milesevic's attempt at ethnic purification, the war in Chechnya, and the genocide of the Tutsis.

The good fairies of philosophy sometimes turn up in the most incongruous places, and during times unlikely to provide a setting for detached contemplation. Whatever were they doing, bent over the cradle of an orphan in a family of Jewish resistants whose very survival, in occupied France, was highly improbable? Even before he went to school, the Glucksmann boy (aka Jojo, aka Rivière, aka André, aka Joseph) realized first hand that the end of his world was entirely possible. He would arrive very shortly at the related conclusion, reinforced by the revelations of Auschwitz and Hiroshima, that the end of humanity is also a possibility that cannot be ignored. A narrative of often very incarnate intellectual adventures and sometimes perilous explorations, the tale of a « voyage beyond my room” by a brilliant and singular mind.

 

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EAN : 9782259203555
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 300
Size : 140 x 225 mm
Plon