Robert Redeker

Robert Redeker ( born May 27, 1954 in Lescure, department Ariège ) is a French philosopher of German descent. He is on the editorial board of the founded by Jean -Paul Sartre, literary- political journal Les Temps Modernes.

Life

Redeker had a German father, who was a farm worker in stone mountains near Hanover and had done military service in the German Afrika Korps. According to Redeker but he had " spat on Hitler." After that, he was interned in the southwest of France, where I met his wife - a Lower Saxon from Hildesheim, who had also turned their backs on their country.

Redeker is a lecturer at the École de l'aviation de Toulouse and teacher at the Lycée Pierre -Paul Riquet in the village of Saint -Orens -de- Ville Game at Toulouse and presenter in a local station of the Jewish community called Radio Kol Aviv. He publishes regularly in newspapers and magazines such as Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération and Marianne. Several of his works have been translated into English, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese.

Controversy over anti-Islam articles

On 19 September 2006 Redeker published in the daily newspaper Le Figaro the Islam-critical products Face aux intimidations islamistes, que doit faire le monde libre? (German: "What should the free world do in the face of Islamist intimidation? "), a contribution to the debate about the Pope Quote of Regensburg. Due to a comment by Yusuf al- Qaradawi in the television station al -Jazeera article was spread through the Islamic world. In Egypt and Tunisia, the distribution of the daily newspaper was stopped the next day, the author was repeatedly threatened by this publication of the Islamists with death. Then his teachers to him were terminated; he was forced to sell his house in order henceforth to live under police protection at various undisclosed locations in southern France. In the daily newspaper Le Monde on 3 October 2006 published a number of well known French intellectuals a appel en faveur de Robert Redeker, including Elisabeth Badinter, Alain Finkielkraut, André Glucksmann, Claude Lanzmann ( including the editorial board of Les Temps Modernes ) and Bernard -Henri Lévy.

In summer 2007, Redeker wrote in the magazine Gazette about his new life:

Works (selection)

• Aux Armes, citoyens! Bérénice Édition, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-911232-22-4.
• Dépression et philosophie. You mal du siècle au mal de ce siècle. Éditions Pleins Feux, Nantes 2007, ISBN 978-2-84729-064-6.
• Nouvelles de l' homme figures. Inhumain, deshumain, neghumain. Éditions Le Bord de l' Eau, Latresne / Gironde 2004, ISBN 2-911803-97-3.
• Le Progres de l' histoire ou L' opium. Éditions Pleins Feux, Nantes 2004, ISBN 2-8472-9037-0.
• Le Sport contre les peuples. Mountain International, Paris, 2002, ISBN 2-911289-41-2.
• Le sport est -il inhumain? Editions du Panama, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7557-0118-0.