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PHILOSOPHER

André Glucksmann

1937 - 2015

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André Glucksmann (French: [ɡlyksman]; 19 June 1937 – 10 November 2015) was a French philosopher, activist, and writer. He was a leading figure of the new philosophers. Glucksmann began his career as a Marxist, who went on to reject Marxism–Leninism and real socialism in the popular book La Cuisinière et le Mangeur d'Hommes (1975), and later became an anti-Communist and outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russian foreign policy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Glucksmann has received more than 152,250 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). André Glucksmann is the 823rd most popular philosopher (down from 789th in 2019), the 2,820th most popular biography from France (down from 2,578th in 2019) and the 101st most popular French Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, André Glucksmann ranks 823 out of 1,081Before him are Charles Kay Ogden, Kazimierz Twardowski, John Italus, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Debendranath Tagore, and Calcidius. After him are Tan Sitong, Christian von Ehrenfels, Ervin László, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Ferenc Dávid, and Gregory of Tatev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, André Glucksmann ranks 183Before him are Sami Frey, Don Bluth, Lois Lowry, Marcian Hoff, Richard Bright, and Igor Volk. After him are Chris Bristow, Sofiko Chiaureli, Gordon Milne, Nur Hassan Hussein, Keiko Abe, and Tomas Venclova. Among people deceased in 2015, André Glucksmann ranks 135Before him are Diana Douglas, Frances Oldham Kelsey, Doris Hart, Moses Malone, E. L. Doctorow, and Phil Taylor. After him are Jørgen Ingmann, Halldór Ásgrímsson, Franco Interlenghi, Carl Djerassi, Joshua Fishman, and Michael Graves.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Glucksmann ranks 2,820 out of 6,011Before him are Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658), Auguste Clésinger (1814), Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1845), Annabella (1907), Étienne de Silhouette (1709), and André Hunebelle (1896). After him are Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789), Anne Hilarion de Tourville (1642), Itta of Metz (592), Michel Corrette (1707), Jacques Brugnon (1895), and Henri Brocard (1845).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, André Glucksmann ranks 101Before him are Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903), Jean-Luc Marion (1946), William of Conches (1080), Jean Guitton (1901), Louis Lavelle (1883), and Claude Lefort (1924). After him are Alain Finkielkraut (1949), Denis Pétau (1583), Anselm of Laon (1050), Favorinus (85), Antoine Berman (1942), and Michael Baius (1513).