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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

PARIS — French intellectual and media darling Bernard-Henri Levy was duped into citing the work of a made-up philosopher in his latest book, which appeared today. In “De la Guerre en Philosophie” (“Of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University will host philosophers and scholars for a two-day international conference Friday and Saturday (Sept. 30-Oct.1) as a part of a three-year joint project with ...

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 ...

In a close-up shot at the start of the mini-series “Voltaire in Love,” a baby François Marie Arouet (also known as French philosopher Voltaire) is pushed out of his mother’s birth canal in a scene of ...

Americans remain unhappy despite surviving 2020’s global pandemic and a tumultuous election. Why? Last year, the United States dropped one place on the list of world’s happiest nations, according to ...

An Australian professor and a French philosopher were named the winners of this year's Ratzinger Prize Oct. 1. Former Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi, president of the Joseph ...