Benny Lévy

Benny Lévy ( born August 28, 1945 in Cairo, Egypt, UK, † 15 October 2003 in Jerusalem), also known as Pierre Victor, was a temporarily stateless philosopher and writer.

Lévy was the age of eleven to Belgium and later to France, where he remained until 1970, the École Normale Supérieure visited by 1965. Paris May 68, he emerged as a political activist. From September 1973 until his death in April 1980 he was the private secretary of Jean -Paul Sartre, whom he had previously stood in the founding of the journal Libération aside.

The former leading figure of the Gauche prolétarienne, a left-wing splinter group at the beginning of the 1970s, took place during his time with Sartre, mediated by the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas ', a philosophical turn of communism Maoist to the Jewish faith and thoughts that as a turning " of Mao was entitled to Moses ". This conversion, which completed some of his colleagues, also meant a return to his Jewish roots, and finally induced him in 1997 to settle in Jerusalem, where he founded the Institute of the études lévinassiennes with Alain Finkielkraut and Bernard -Henri Lévy, which he up to his death led.

The publication of the conversations he had had with Sartre in the later 1970s, ensured irritation and pushed in the vicinity Sartre, such as Simone de Beauvoir, incomprehension and mistrust significant as to the authenticity in the reproduction Sartre'scher positions. Irritating effect especially the revision of Sartre's Being -for-others and the approach to Judaism. The " Sartre family" recognized "their" Sartre not again and sought to discredit the text. However, Sartre urged the publication and strongly reaffirmed his co-authorship. In fact, Sartre saw in this legacy project probably like the opportunity nachzuliefern those morals, which he had announced in Being and Nothingness almost four decades earlier.

Works

  • The intellectual as a revolutionary. Disputes ( "On a raison de se révolter "). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1986, ISBN 3-499-11994-3, under the pseudonym Pierre Victor; with Jean- Paul Sartre and Philippe Gavi.
  • Le Nom de l' homme. Dialogue with Sartre. Verdier, Lagrasse 1984, ISBN 2-86432-038- X.
  • Philo s regard the pharisiens de l' interiorite. ANRT, Lille 1986 (3 microfiches, zugl. thesis, Sorbonne, Paris, 1985).
  • Le logos et la lettre. Philon d' Alexandrie en regard the pharisiens. Verdier, Lagrasse, 1988, ISBN 2-86432-077-0.
  • Fraternity and violence. An interview with Benny Lévy. Along with Jean -Paul Sartre, afterword by Lothar Baier, Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-8031-2219-8 ( original: L' espoir de maintenant Les entretiens 1980 presentes et suivis du Mot de la fin par Benny Lévy. , Lagrasse verdier 1991, ISBN 978-2-86432-129-3 )
  • Visage continu. La pensée du retour chez Emmanuel Levinas. Verdier, Lagrasse 1998, ISBN 2-86432-289-7.
  • Le meurtre you pasteur. Critique de la vision du monde politique Grasset, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-246-62571-8.
  • Être Juif. Étude lévinassinènne. Verdier, Lagrasse 2003, ISBN 2-86432-402-4 ..
  • La confusion des temps. Verdier, Lagrasse, 2004, ISBN 2-86432-422-9.
  • The ceremony de la naissance. Verdier, Lagrasse 2005, ISBN 2-86432-431-8.
  • Le Livre et les livres. Questions and Answers sur la laïcité. Verdier, Lagrasse 2006, ISBN 2-86432-459-8 ( with Alain Finkielkraut ).
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