Bernard-Henri Lévy, a French Algerian Jew, studied under Althusser and "became the most famous member of a group called the nouveaux philosophes who turned against Marxism."
He is rarely referred to by his full name, and is known instead as a brand: BHL. He is like an unfathomably French combination of Melvyn Bragg, J.K. Rowling and David Beckham. If Bernard-Henri Lévy didn't exist, you couldn't possibly invent him. [more>]Posted by nchicha at June 17, 2003 03:44 PM
I need to learn from that garcon.
Posted by: Pierre Menard on June 18, 2003 08:30 PMi read about him in vanity fair once while waiting at doctor's office. there's something really cheesy about him and that willowy wife of his. he looks like a self-absorbed and shallow fool. and his wife supposedly wears lipstick on her cheeks. that was supposed to be a sign of her classiness, but that's just weird to me.
i had some good laughs reading the guardian article, many thanxxx, nathalie.
I just noticed the guy's French Algerian too. Do they have a monopoly on French philosophy?
Posted by: Pierre Menard on June 21, 2003 09:43 PM