by André Glucksmann · TAURUS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788430604845
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In 'Dostoievski in Manhattan', André Glucksmann invites us to rethink absolute violence in the light of great literary works. Writers such as Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Pushkin or Chekhov revealed this collapse of values two centuries ago. The author presents us with an interesting and brilliant reflection on nihilism from a historical and cultural perspective, analyzing how the nihilist terrorist, hidden behind religious or ideological alibis, aims at destruction.
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.
