Master Thinkers

André Glucksmann was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France on June 19, 1937. He joined the Communist Party at the age of 13, but was expelled after criticizing the Soviet Union's suppression of the revolt in Hungary. He received a teaching degree known as an agrégation from the École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud in 1961 and then enrolled show more in the National Center for Scientific Research to pursue a doctorate. He was part of the New Philosophers, a group of former radicals who broke with Marxism in the 1970s and became an intellectual counterweight to France's political left. His first book, The Language of War, published in 1967. His other books include Revolutionary Strategy, The Cook and the Cannibal, The Master Thinkers, Stupidity, The Crack in the World, De Gaulle, Where Are You?, Dostoyevsky in Manhattan, A Child's Rage, and Voltaire Counterattacks. He died on November 10, 2015 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) show less