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Jean-François Revel

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Jean-François Revel

Born January 19, 1924 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Died April 30, 2006 · aged 82

Jean-François Revel (born Jean-François Ricard; 19 January 1924 – 30 April 2006) was a French philosopher, journalist, and author. A prominent public intellectual, Revel was a socialist in his youth but later became a prominent European proponent of classical liberalism and free market economics. He was a member of the Académie française after June 1998. He is best known for his book Without Marx …

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Le mot et l'imageLe mot et l'image · 1968
Le mot et l'image
1968
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This program is presented as a report on the way the weekly Paris Match deals with information through images. Two of the newspaper's main managers explain what their job is. As a counterpoint to these interviews with image professionals, the philosopher and essayist Jean-François Revel recalls his attachment to marking the limits of information through images (source: Média Scérén)

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