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Roger Garaudy

1913 - 2012

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Roger Garaudy (French: [ʁɔʒe gaʁodi]; 17 July 1913 – 13 June 2012) was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author. He converted to Islam in 1982. In 1998, he was convicted for several years and fined for Holocaust denial under French law for claiming that the mass slaughter of six million Jews was a "myth". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roger Garaudy is the 256th most popular philosopher (down from 231st in 2019), the 652nd most popular biography from France (down from 590th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Philosopher.

Roger Garaudy is most famous for being a French philosopher and Marxist who wrote a book called The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Roger Garaudy ranks 256 out of 1,267. Before him are Bias of Priene, Cleanthes, Adam Weishaupt, Cratylus, Isaiah Berlin, and Arcesilaus. After him are Pherecydes of Syros, Donald Davidson, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Euclid of Megara, Judah Loew ben Bezalel, and Marsilius of Padua.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Roger Garaudy ranks 28. Before him are Stanford Moore, Benjamin Britten, Sabiha Gökçen, Bill Hewlett, Silvio Piola, and Paul Erdős. After him are Kenzō Tange, Lon Nol, Carmen Amaya, Albert Ellis, William Tolbert, and Wolfgang Paul. Among people deceased in 2012, Roger Garaudy ranks 21. Before him are George Tupou V, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Clarke Duncan, Elinor Ostrom, Jon Lord, and Ernest Borgnine. After him are Matilde Camus, Tony Scott, Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen, Donna Summer, Sylvia Kristel, and Griselda Blanco.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roger Garaudy ranks 652 out of 6,770. Before him are Aristide Maillol (1861), Madeleine of Valois (1520), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Madame de La Fayette (1634), Anaïs Nin (1903), and Louis I, Duke of Orléans (1372). After him are Rashi (1040), Pierre Richard (1934), Darius Milhaud (1892), Alexandre Millerand (1859), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), and Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Roger Garaudy ranks 32. Before him are Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Joseph de Maistre (1753), Gaston Bachelard (1884), and Gabriel Marcel (1889). After him are Nicole Oresme (1323), François Fénelon (1651), Sebastian Brant (1458), Raymond Aron (1905), Bruno Latour (1947), and Jacques Maritain (1882).

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