About André Glucksmann
André Glucksmann 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. He was a strong supporter of human rights. In later years, he opposed the claim that Islamic terrorism is the product of the clash of civilizations between Islam and the Western world. His first book, Le Discours de la Guerre, was published in 1968. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Glucksmann became an advocate for the use of nuclear power. Former president and opposition leader Nicolas Sarkozy commented on Glucksmann's death by saying: " turned a page in French thought from the second half of the 20th Century." His first wife (1958-1974) was the philosopher Christine Buci.
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