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.
