Lévy, Benny, 1945-2003

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Name (Hebrew)
לוי, בני, 1945-2003
Name (Latin)
Lévy, Benny, 1945-2003
Other forms of name
לעווי, בני, 1945-2003
ויקטור, פייר, 1945-2003
ויקטור, פיר, 1945-2003
Date of birth
1945-08-28
Date of death
2003-10-15
Place of birth
Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel)
Place of residence/headquarters
New York (N.Y.)
Occupation
Cartoonists
Painters
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 109608747
Wikidata: Q631466
Library of congress: n 84186186
Sources of Information

Wikipedia description:

Benny Lévy (French: [bɛni levi]; also Pierre Victor; 28 August 1945 – 15 October 2003) was a philosopher, political activist and author. A political figure of May 1968 in France, he was the disciple and last personal secretary of Jean-Paul Sartre from 1974 to 1980. Along with him, he helped found the French newspaper Libération in 1972. After having encountered the Jewish philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas in 1978, he effected a return to Jewish tradition. In 2000, he founded the Institut d'études lévinassiennes in Jerusalem with Alain Finkielkraut and Bernard-Henri Lévy. Benny Lévy is known for his unusual itinerary from Maoism to Judaism, or "from Mao to Moses", which was also followed by a few other philosophers of his generation.

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