Jean-François Revel

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Jean-François Revel, 1999. Photographer Elsa Dorfman

Jean-François Revel (born January 19, 1924 in Marseille , † April 30, 2006 in Paris ) was the author of numerous books, journalist and philosopher .

Life

Revel was born under the name Jean-François Ricard and only later changed his last name to Revel .

After attending school in Marseille and Lyon, he went to the École normal supérieure in Paris in 1943. During this time he was involved in the French resistance (Résistance) against the German occupation.

From autumn 1947 to spring 1948 he was a lecturer in Tlemcen, then still French Algeria, in 1950 he was also a lecturer at the Institut français in Mexico, and in 1957 in Rome. He publishes the first books and writes for various magazines. From 1966 he was a permanent editor of the weekly political magazine L'Express and from 1978 to 1981 its editor-in-chief.

In 1971 he became acquainted with the work Neither Marx nor Jesus , which dealt with the cultural and political effects of the social upheavals of the 1968 movement . Other works were The totalitarian temptation , So end democracies and The monk and the philosopher (dialogues with his son Matthieu Ricard ).

Revel had been a member of the Académie française since 1997 . In 1986 he received the Konrad Adenauer Prize of the Germany Foundation .

Revel died of cardiovascular disease at the age of 82 in the Parisian Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital .

Works

  • Pourquoi des philosophes? , 1957
  • Pour l'Italie , 1958 (Ger. Italy. Illusion and reality. A report on a myth , Stuttgart 1959)
  • Sur Proust , 1960
  • La Cabale des dévots , 1962
  • En France. La fin de l'opposition , 1965 (Eng. What's wrong with the French. The end of the opposition , Karlsruhe 1966)
  • Contrecensures , 1966
  • Ni Marx ni Jésus, la nouvelle révolution mondiale est commencée aux Etats-Unis , 1970 (German: The revolution comes from America , Hamburg 1971; 1973 under the title Unshelp no Jesus and no Marx )
  • La Tentation totalitaire , 1976 (German: The totalitarian temptation , Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-548-00655-8 )
  • Histoire de la civilization culinaire (German. Exquisite meals. Messages from the history of culinary art , Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-549-07391-7 )
  • La Grâce de l'État , 1981
  • Comment les démocraties finissent , 1983 ( This is how democracies end , Munich and Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-492-00868-2 )
  • Le Rejet de l'État , 1984
  • Une anthologie de la poésie française , 1984
  • Le Terrorisme contre la democratie , 1987
  • La Connaissance inutile , 1988 (Eng. The rule of lies. How the media and politicians manipulate the public , Vienna and Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-552-04214-8 )
  • L'Absolutisme inefficace, ou Contre le présidentialisme à la française , 1992
  • Le Regain démocratique , 1992
  • Histoire de la philosophie occidentale, de Thalès à Kant , 1994 (German history of western philosophy. From Thales to Kant , Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1168-6 or ISBN 3-8258-1168-9 )
  • together with Matthieu Ricard: Le Moine et le Philosophe , 1997 (Ger. The monk and the philosopher. Buddhism and the West. A dialogue between father and son , Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-462-03239-9 )
  • Mémoires , Le Voleur dans la maison vide, 1997, ISBN 978-2-259-18022-1 (In his memoirs he writes about the numerous personalities from politics and culture with whom he has dealt in his diverse activities and his worldview A diverse picture of France from around 1940 to 1984 by a critically observing contemporary witness)
  • Fin du siècle des ombres , 1999
  • La grande parade. Essai sur la survie de l'utopie socialiste , 2000
  • L'obsession anti-américaine , 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. J.-F. Revel, French Philosopher, Is Dead at 82 , New York Times. May 2, 2006. 
  2. ^ Académie Française: Les Immortels - J.-F. Revel. Académie Française, accessed October 12, 2019 .