Comebacks can be tough — even when you are famous enough to be known only by your initials. So it has been this week in Paris, where France’s best-known contemporary philosopher, Bernard-Henri Lévy — ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. PARIS (AP) – World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic ...

What do haute couture and existentialism have in common? Both, says Tamara Chaplin, were prestige exports for a France in postwar shambles. After Allied liberation, the French were glad of products ...

Jacques Derrida, the French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and notoriously difficult philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital, the French president's ...

Claude Levi-Strauss, the French philosopher widely considered the father of modern anthropology because of his then-revolutionary conclusion that so-called primitive societies did not differ greatly ...

PARIS (JTA) — As a French celebrity philosopher, Alain Finkielkraut belongs to a tiny group of VIPs who get to lead normal, paparazzi-free lives despite having film star-like recognizability here.

PARIS – World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president’s office said Saturday. He was 74. Derrida ...

Russia's August military offensive in Georgia has drawn strong international condemnation. Some of the most stinging criticism has come from Andre Glucksmann, a prominent French philosopher and Russia ...