Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 17:07:17 -0500 From: WITKIEWICZ-AT-aol.com Subject: Re: New Philosophers a facile group of ex-maoists who promoted themselves into media stars in the 70's.. the most "representative" of the lot being Bernard-Henri Levy (<Barbarism With a Human Face>) and Andre Glucksman (<The Master Thinkers>)... for a couple of good secondary discussions see two articles by Peter Dews: "The 'New Philosophers' and the End of Leftism" in <Radical Philosophy Reader> ed. Edgley & Osborne, and "The Nouvelle Philosophie and Foucault" in <Economy and Society> vol 8 #2. Don't waste much time on them, they're nothing more than a curiosity in recent French intellectual history, of more sociological than intellectual interest... ------------------
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