Si, à cinquante ans, tu n’est pas cité dans un article du Guardian consacré aux « french intellectuals », c’est que tu as raté ta vie.
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/26/french-intellectuals-feud-libya-campaign
Bernard-Henri Lévy, the celebrity philosopher who played a crucial role in Sarkozy’s decision to recognise the rebel movement and intervene in Libya, is under attack by another leading intellectual, the writer and film-maker Claude Lanzmann.
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Despite being dismissed by one Élysée adviser as a “pretentious little bastard”, BHL’s influence over the president was unprecedented for a philosopher.
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The pacifist philosopher Michel Onfray attacked BHL for personal “opportunism”, comparing him to a long line of French philosophers from Sartre to André Malraux who were “better at writing their own myth than the history of the world”.
The philosopher Regis Debray warned that French intellectuals became “comic” when they tried to interfere in foreign affairs. But the writer Renaud Camus defended BHL as part of the “best tradition of French intellectuals”, and the philosopher Pascal Bruckner said Lévy was “profoundly respectable” in staying true to his convictions.