Benny Lévy Philosopher

Benny Lévy (also Pierre Victor; 1945–2003) 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 founding the French newspaper Libération in 1972. After having encountered the Jewish philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas in 1978, he operated a return to tradition. He then 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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Birth date	August 28, 1945
Birth place	Cairo , Egypt , Kingdom of Egypt
Date of death	October 15, 2003
Place of death	Jerusalem , Israel
Era	20th-century philosophy
Main interest	Existentialism Talmud Existential phenomenology Marxism

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influenced by	Jean-Paul Sartre Karl Marx Jacques Derrida Emmanuel Levinas Louis Althusser
philosophical school	Continental philosophy
region	Western philosophy