Monday, November 07, 2016

Bernard Henry Levi--from wikipedia--

New Philosophers

Returning to Paris, Lévy became known as a founder of the New Philosophers (Nouveaux Philosophes) school. This was a group of young intellectuals who were disenchanted with communist and socialist responses to the near-revolutionary upheavals in France of May 1968, and who developed an uncompromising moral critique of Marxist and socialist dogmas.[5] In 1977, the television show Apostrophes[6] featured Lévy together with André Glucksmann as a nouveau philosophe. In that year, he published Barbarism with a Human Face (La barbarie à visage humain, 1977), arguing that Marxism was inherently corrupt. Throughout the 1970s, Lévy taught a course on epistemology at the University of Strasbourg and he also taught philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure.

Jeez--David Foster Wallace--Consider the Lobster--essay collection--preview--warning-- starts with men castrating themselves.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Consider_the_Lobster/00OFZG6XKfoC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP7&printsec=frontcover