In a society where algorithms curate belief and success is measured in visibility, what keeps a nation from losing its soul? For French philosopher and sociologist Raphaël Liogier, the answer may lie ...

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 — ...

In “The True Life,” Alain Badiou addresses a new generation facing the fall of liberalism, the rise of fascism, and the end of gender. French philosopher Alain Badiou is, by his own admission, a ...

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 ...

Is Alain Badiou the next great French import into American academe? A hundred or so people squeezed into a small open space on the second floor of Labyrinth Books, near Columbia University, this month ...

French philosopher Paul Ricoeur, an influential thinker on both sides of the Atlantic, died May 20 at home in Chatenay-Malabry near Paris after a months-long illness. Ricoeur was 92. Raised in a ...