Jean-François Revel
1924
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2006
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: France
native language: French
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: École Normale Supérieure, lycée du Parc, Lycée Jean-Baptiste-Say
occupation: journalist
award received: Officer of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, Officer of the Order of the Southern Cross, Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry, Knight of the Legion of Honour
position held: president, seat 24 of the Académie française
Jean-François Revel (born Jean-François Ricard; 19 January 1924 – 30 April 2006) was a French philosopher, journalist, and author. A prominent public intellectual, Revel was a socialist in his youth but later became a prominent European proponent of classical liberalism and free market economics. He was a member of the Académie française after June 1998. He is best known for his book Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun, published in French in 1970. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Le Moine et le Philosophe
Histoire de la philosophie occidentale : de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance, ou de la naissance de la philosophie à la naissance de la science
L'Obsession anti-américaine
Comment les démocraties finissent
Pourquoi des philosophes
La Connaissance inutile
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La Philosophie classique : humanistes et cartésiens
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Fin du siècle des ombres
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Mémoires : le voleur dans la maison vide
Pour l'Italie
Descartes inutile et incertain
Le regain démocratique
Last Exit to Utopia
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Without Marx or Jesus
Democracy Against Itself the Future of the Democratic Impulse
Un Festin en paroles
Sur Proust
La cabale des dévots
Contrecensures
La grande parade : essai sur la survie de l'utopie socialiste
La Tentation totalitaire
Articles
There is nothing here
Editions prefaced or postfaced by Jean-François Revel 1
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