by André Glucksmann · Le Livre de Poche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253023586
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«Les maîtres penseurs» is André Glucksmann's political philosophy essay, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (411 pages, in French).
Drawing on Fichte, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, the book explores how certain philosophical ideas fuelled the totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century. Glucksmann argues that thought, placed at the service of the state, can become an instrument of domination and repression, and questions the responsibility of intellectuals.
The work was originally published in 1977; this paperback edition is from 1979 and offers the complete text, in the Le Livre de Poche collection (no. 5327).
For readers of philosophy and history interested in the ideological roots of twentieth-century totalitarianisms.
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.
