— Two Jews, an anthropobgist and a political philosopher, have been named by France’s intellectuals the two main “trend setters” in the fields of science, letters, art and philosophy.
Six hundred prominent intellectuals, university professors, writers, politicians and artists, named anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, 72, and philosopher Raymond Aron, 68, as the country’s top thinkers “who exert the strongest influence in the evolution of ideas and modern thinking.”
Levi-Strauss, who is a member of the French Academy, has written extensively on primitive man and his influence on contemporary life but also on the history of religion and theology. Aron, who teaches political science at the Sorbonne, also writes a weekly column in the French weekly “L’ Express.”
Among the follow ups in the list, published to-day in the French monthly “Books,” are Simone de Beauvoir, Bernard Henri-Levy and Marguerite Yourcenar who are better known by the general public.
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