About the Author

Alain Finkielkraut

Alain Finkielkraut (born June 30, 1949, in Paris) is a French philosopher and author. He is the son of a Polish-Jewish leather goods merchant who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. He teaches philosophy at the École Polytechnique and hosts a program on the French radio station France Culture. Finkielkraut stands in the tradition of those great public intellectuals who, since Voltaire, have intervened in the course of history, and is one of France's most influential intellectuals.