The philosopher André Glucksmann, 25 January 2010 in Paris. – CAPMAN / SIPA

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Associate aware of the “new philosophers”, André Glucksmann died in the night of 9 to 10 November at age of 78, according to information from the World , confirmed by his son Raphaël, on Facebook.

“My first and best friend is no more. I had the incredible opportunity to know, laugh, debate, travel, play, do everything and do nothing at all with a man as good and as great. That, my father died last night, “wrote Raphael Glucksmann.

Philosopher antitotalitarian after being near the” Maoists “French, André Glucksmann, born June 19, 1937, broke dramatically with Marxism in 1975 publishing The cook and the man-eater . He served with Bernard-Henri Lévy, the so called “new philosophers”. In the late 1970s, he managed to bring together including the leftist intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre and Aron liberal intellectual to make common cause for the “boat people” leaving communist Vietnam.

There will always championed against all forms of totalitarianism. He argued in particular intervention against Serbia during the Kosovo war in 1999. While always claiming left, he does not hesitate to support Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential In One of rage child (Plon, 2006), he recounted having been outraged by “the miseries of the world.”

“This is a real critical thinking along with a conscience that disappears “said on Europe 1 the Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron. “He is one of those brave philosophers who are engaged in the life of the city, in this fight, and that informed early.”