by André Glucksmann · Robert Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221093214
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«Dostoïevski à Manhattan» is the philosophical essay by André Glucksmann, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (278 pages, in French).
The essay analyzes the 9/11 attack as the start of an era of globalized nihilism. Glucksmann proposes understanding this violence through literature, with Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Flaubert and Pushkin, and traces the roots of terrorism. It also reflects on how democracies respond to violence without a state or claim.
The work includes bibliographic references and originally appeared in French on January 10, 2002.
Aimed at readers interested in contemporary philosophy, analysis of terrorism and readings of 9/11.
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.
