André Glucksmann (1937-2015) was the son of Jewish refugees. His father had been born in Bucovina and his mother in Prague. Affiliated to the Communist Party after passing through Zionism, both join the ranks of the Comintern to fight against Nazism. On the death of his father in 1940, his mother entered the French Resistance. As Pascal Bruckner has said, Glucksmann entered life fighting. He published his first book Le Discours de la Guerre in 1968, being an assistant to Raymond Aron. He participates in the events of May 68 from a Maoist position, defender of the Chinese cultural revolution. In the following years, a radical political evolution led him to break with Marxism and he became leader of the so-called nouveaux philosophes. In 1975 he published La Cuisinière et le mangeur d 'hommes, where he equated Nazism and Communism. During these years he defended dissidents from communist countries and became friends with Vaclav Havel, among others. Already in the 1990s, he is among the first to denounce the Serbian aggressions in Bosnia, the attitude of Russia in Chechnya and to support the velvet revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine. In recent years he defended Atlanticist positions and favorable to Israeli interventions in Gaza. Other books of his are Le XI Commandement (1992), Dostoïevski à Manhattan (2002) or Le Discours de la haine (2004).