Word: glucksmann
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...French philosopher André Glucksmann, considered one of the intellectual fathers of the May 1968 movement in Paris, is one of a growing number of atheist intellectuals who have praised the Pope for his call for a shared morality based on reason. He sees Ratzinger's campus experience 40 years ago as a "generational" effect that actually has its roots in an earlier, more cataclysmic turning point in perceptions of the world's workings. "The decline of faith has little to do with '68, Glucksmann told TIME. "It came from the end of World War I, when people stopped thinking...
...ravages of globalization; no more reflexive opposition to the U.S., which enjoyed a rare expression of Gallic affection when Sarkozy said: "France will always be by their side when they need it." Sarkozy also declared that he wants "to rehabilitate work, authority, morality, respect and merit." André Glucksmann, a philosopher who has embraced Sarkozy, sees a parallel to this revolutionary epoch. "France was liberated in May '68," he says. "Now Sarkozy, with his plain talk, has shaken up France again...
...Monde, Redeker wrote that one website condemning him to death included a map showing exactly where he and his family lived, along with photos of him and his workplaces. In the letter, published as part of an appeal of support signed by French intellectuals including Bernard-Henri L?vy, Andr? Glucksmann and Elisabeth Badinter, Redeker writes that he and his family are being forced to move every two days. "I'm a homeless person," he complains. "I exercised a constitutional right, and I'm being punished for it right here on the territory of the Republic...
...larger problem unanswered: How to modernize France? Jobs will not spring magically into being if the hated employment law is abandoned. Eventually, structural reforms will be needed to transform France's prospects - and that will need fresher, more politically astute leadership than the country has now. André Glucksmann, one of the new philosophers who emerged in 1968, thinks that the great majority of French voters - the ones who didn't march last weekend - know that things have to change. "Every generation we have a war, a revolt or a revolution," he says. "That's how we recycle...
...taboos and reveals matters that render us sleepless. Faced with the globalized inhumanity that is burning the 21st century, Kouchner is introducing a new humanism without geographical or political borders. He does it not to open the gates of paradise, but to bolt the gates of hell. --BY ANDRE GLUCKSMANN, philosopher and political essayist