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Alain Finkielkraut (born 30 June 1949) is a French essayist and public intellectual. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics, many on the ideas of tradition and identitary violence, including Jewish identity and antisemitism, French colonialism, the mission of the French education system in immigrant assimilation, and the Yugoslav Wars. He joined the Department of French Literature in the University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1976 at the age of 27, and from 1989 to 2014, he was professor of History of Ideas in the ''École Polytechnique'' department of humanities and social sciences. He was elected member of the ''Académie française'' (Seat 21) on 10 April 2014. He often appears in France on talk shows. As a thinker, Finkielkraut defines himself as being "at the same time classical and romantic". In a similar vein to some American scholarly views such as the criticism of the ''School of Resentment'' by Harold Bloom, and of the ''The Closing of the American Mind'' by Allan Bloom, Finkielkraut deplores what he sees as the deterioration of Western tradition through multiculturalism and relativism. In 2010, he was involved in founding JCall, a left-wing zionist advocacy group based in Europe to lobby the European Parliament on foreign policy issues concerning the Middle East. He is a strong supporter of Israel and the two-state solution. ==Life== Finkielkraut is a son of a Polish Jewish manufacturer of fine leather goods who had been deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and survived. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alain Finkielkraut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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