PHILOSOPHER

Claude Lefort

1924 - 2010

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Claude Lefort (; French: [ləfɔʁ]; 21 April 1924 – 3 October 2010) was a French philosopher and activist. He was politically active by 1942 under the influence of his tutor, the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (whose posthumous publications Lefort later edited). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Lefort has received more than 137,721 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Claude Lefort is the 801st most popular philosopher (up from 816th in 2019), the 2,763rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,773rd in 2019) and the 102nd most popular French Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Claude Lefort ranks 801 out of 1,267. Before him are Timon of Athens, Leo Löwenthal, Franz Neumann, Bernard Stiegler, Kazimierz Łyszczyński, and Francisco Sanches. After him are Alain Finkielkraut, Gargi Vachaknavi, Volin, Calcidius, Rambhadracharya, and Frederick Copleston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Claude Lefort ranks 155. Before him are M. Karunanidhi, Luigi Musso, Motoo Kimura, Daniel Inouye, Zizi Jeanmaire, and Franco Cristaldi. After him are Walter Gotell, Eduardo Fajardo, Ken Tyrrell, Franco Basaglia, Billy Wright, and Michel Constantin. Among people deceased in 2010, Claude Lefort ranks 119. Before him are Miguel Delibes, Captain Beefheart, Caterina Boratto, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Dick Francis, and Jean Ferrat. After him are Emilio Eduardo Massera, Rue McClanahan, Anatoly Dobrynin, Luis García Berlanga, Adriaan Blaauw, and Raymond Franz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Lefort ranks 2,763 out of 6,770. Before him are Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803), René Crevel (1900), Jean-Hugues Anglade (1955), Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (1769), Jean Ferrat (1930), and Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1845). After him are Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), Alain Finkielkraut (1949), Alix, Duchess of Brittany (1200), Augustin Pajou (1730), Isabelle Aubret (1938), and Bernard Werber (1961).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Claude Lefort ranks 102. Before him are Élisabeth Badinter (1944), Jean-Luc Marion (1946), Charles Renouvier (1815), Peter John Olivi (1248), Léon Brunschvicg (1869), and Bernard Stiegler (1952). After him are Alain Finkielkraut (1949), Michael Baius (1513), Favorinus (85), Gilbert Simondon (1924), Michel Marcel Navratil (1908), and Jean Guitton (1901).

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