by André Glucksmann · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253038719
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«La bêtise» is the philosophical work by André Glucksmann published by Librairie Générale Française in 1986 in paperback, in French.
Glucksmann argues that stupidity is not a simple mental weakness: active, jealous and conquering, it classifies, orders and excludes, and never admits its mistakes. It is found on television, in Bouvard and Pécuchet and among the powerful; behind the great ideologies, it sustains world wars and party spirit.
Work originally published by Grasset in Paris in 1985. This edition belongs to the collection Le livre de poche (No. 6179) and includes the complete text.
This work is addressed to readers of philosophy, especially those interested in the critique of ideologies.
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.
