Public Enemies by Michel Houellebecq & Bernard Henri Lévy

Author:Michel Houellebecq & Bernard Henri Lévy [Houellebecq, Michel & Lévy, Bernard Henri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Writing
ISBN: 9781848871588
Google: 7K6YQwAACAAJ
Goodreads: 9027714
Publisher: Atlantic
Published: 2008-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

*Competitive civil service examinations, which those aspiring to teach at the second or third level must pass.

*Joseph Haïm Sitruk, former chief rabbi of France.

*Marcellin Cazes, owner of Brasserie Lipp, a Parisian institution.

†French poet and writer.

‡French author awarded the Nobel Prize in 1937.

**Jean-François Champollion, French classical scholar and orientalist who deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs.

*Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist who became prominent in France. The comment referred to here is that “without Bach, God would be a second-rate figure.”

*Cross of Fire, French far-right league during the interwar period. It was dissolved with the rest of the leagues in the Popular Front period (1936–1938).

†Cercle de l’Union interallié, a social and dining club established in 1917.

*Vilna Gaon, otherwise known as the Rabbi Eliyaha of Vilna (1720–1797): a Talmudic scholar and Kabbalist.

†Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935), a Latvian-born rabbi, scholar, and Zionist who became chief rabbi of Jerusalem in 1919.

*German-Jewish theologian and philosopher who grew up in a minimally observant Jewish family and considered conversion to Christianity but then made a committed return to Judaism after undergoing a mystical experience.

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