Jean-François Revel

Biography

Jean-François Revel is born in 1924 in Marseilles, in a family of inhabitant of Franche-Compt3e origin. After studies in preparatory classes with the College of the Park to Lyon, it integrates the National university in 1943. During the Second world war, Jean-François Revel engages in the Résistance to Paris under the orders of Auguste Anglès. Once graduate of the National university of the street of Ulm and aggregate of Philosophy, he teaches in Algérie (still French department), abroad (with the Mexico and in Italy), then in France, with Lille, until 1963. It Marie first once with Yahne Toumelin (painter Frenchwoman) of which he will have a son and a girl: Matthieu Ricard, buddhist monk, writer, near to the Dalaï Lama and Eve Ricard, writer.

It is devoted then to its career of journalist and writer. In 1967, he marries in second weddings the journalist Claude Sarraute, girl of the writer Nathalie Sarraute. Lampoonist and essay writer, he collaborates in France-Observer , then becomes at the end of the Années 1970 directing of the Express train . He also collaborated as leader-writer in radio stations: Europe 1 (1989-1992), RTL (1995-1998). As from 1982, he is chronicler in the newspaper the Point . Socialist until 1970, it breaks by publishing its first political test with great success, Neither Marx nor Jesus , which will be translated in more than 20 languages. In 1976, it publishes totalitarian Temptation , then one year later the New Censure .

In addition to the policy and philosophy (subject of its first test, Why philosophers and of sound History of Western philosophy. Of Thalès to Kant ), Jean-François Revel also wrote on the literature ( On Proust , 1960 and 1997), the history of art ( the Eye and knowledge , 1998) and the gastronomy ( a feast in words , 1985).

He is elected the June 19th 1997 with the French Academy with the 24^e armchair. The same year, it publishes its memories under the title the Robber in the house empties like the Monk and the Philosopher , a dialog with his son Matthieu Ricard, drawn with 350,000 specimens in France and translated into 21 languages.

Jean-François Revel dies on April 30th, 2006 and is buried on May 5th with the Cimetière of Montparnasse (the 10th division).

Thought

One owes him the theorization in 1979 of the right of interference.

After its rupture with socialism, it oscillates between the current Libéral and the Néoconservatisme (See for example How the Democracies finish or anti-American Obsession ). In the intellectual mediums, Jean-François Revel was one of the French main adversaries of the Marxisme, whose weight led it to move away from the political left.

Quotations

The market economy, founded on freedom to undertake and democratic capitalism, a private capitalism, dissociated of the political power but associated with the Rule of law, this economy alone can claim liberalism. ( the Large parade , 2000, p. 71)
The ideology, it is what thinks of your place.
A philosophical system is not made to be included/understood: it is made to render comprehensible. It too much is forgotten, and this is why we speak so much about technique, preparation, vocabulary. This is why there is always something which is not rather well included/understood so that the discussion can start.
The liberal inequalities of the production companies are agitated of a permanent mixing and they are modifiable at any moment. In the companies of official redistribution, the inequalities are on the contrary fixed and structural: whatever the efforts and the talents deployed by a credit of the French private sector, it will never have the “acquired” advantages (i.e. granted and untouchable) of an agent of Électricité de France
What the French hate, they are not the inequalities, they are the inequalities other than those which are granted by the State.
The XXe century was, beyond all limits up to that point known, that of the defect.
The evidence is not provided any more by the philosopher as more or less convincing arguments; they grâcieusement are grâcieusement granted. It is not even any more of the arguments, they are facts: the philosopher thought that. It is not any more philosophy, it is natural history. It is not a question any more of studying the man but of painting it so that god and the Cartesianism is justified.
I did not fight Communism in the name of the liberal ideas; I fought it in the name of human dignity.
Time erases the memory of misfortunes, never that of the faults.
Why, under the terms of which reasoning, certain redeemers of mankind they put head which the company would become right only day or no individual could launch out more for his own account in an economic enterprise, initially as producer, then as consumer? I give up with the psychologists depths the task to inform us on this subject. ( Grace of the State )
The primates vociferators and breakers of the antimondialisation, in déshérence of Maoism, are actually caught some in America, synonymous with capitalism ( the Point , September 13rd, 2001)
To what do lead the vociferations of a Jose Bove and her trustworthy against the universalization, which benefits the emergent countries besides? ( the Point , March 30th, 2006)
There is a xenophobia generalized at the Iraqis, as in much of Arab countries. We are in front of people unable to control itself and which, at the same time, does not want that the others deal with him: the situation is quasi insoluble. This contradiction is typically arabo-Moslem woman, it is a feature of civilization
While, of the subsoil of our ignorance of the History, we compare Silvio Berlusconi to Benito Mussolini and remeltings to accommodate it with the Living room of the book, our trotsko-totalitarian left prepared the shipwreck of the democratic left. Lionel Jospin then moved its countryside towards the gauchism. Our ecologists themselves are not ecologists, they are Mao-gauchistes and, in economy, align stupid things worthy of Arlette Laguiller. As opposed to what one regrets, well wrongly, the Marxist ideology still reinforced in the countryside of 2002, but under tinsels antédiluviens, dedicated to the dustbins of the History
Since time that France " rayonne" , I wonder how the whole world did not die of insolation.
The Utopia is not obligation with any obligation of results. Its only function is to make it possible its followers to condemn what exists in the name of what does not exist.
Georges Marchais acted with respect to her party like a despot, and with respect to Moscow, like a slave.
Communism, it is the Nazism, the lie moreover

Decorations

Officer of the Legion of honor (19)
Officer of the Order of the Cross of the South of Brazil (19)
Large officer of the Order of Henri the Navigator of Portugal (19)
Commander about Isabelle the Catholic (19)

Principal works

Why of the philosophers? (1957)
For Italy (1958)
Style of the general (1959)
On Proust (1960)
the Cabal of the excessively pious people (1962)
Contrecensures (1966)
Neither Marx nor Jesus: Second American revolution with the second world revolution (1970)
useless and dubious Descartes (1976)
totalitarian Temptation (1976)
Grace of the State (1981)
How the democracies finish (1983)
the Rejection of the State (1984)
an anthology of French poetry (1984)
Terrorism against the democracy (1987)
useless Knowledge (1988)
the ineffective Absolutism, or Against the presidentialism with the Frenchwoman (1992)
Democratic Renewal (1992)
History of Western philosophy, Thalès with Kant (1994)
the Monk and the Philosopher (dialog with his son Matthieu Ricard) (1997)
the Robber in the empty house. Memories , Plon, 1997, Fine ISBN 2259180221
of the century of the shades (1999)
the Large Parade. Test on the survival of the socialist Utopia (2000)
Dishes of season. Newspaper of the year 2000 (2001)
anti-American obsession (2002)

See too

Biography

Pierre Boncenne, For Jean-François Revel. A free spirit, Plon, 2006.

External bonds

Site devoted to Jean-François Revel
Jean-François Revel on Wikiberal

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