Alain Finkielkraut: astrology, horoscope, natal chart

Alain Finkielkraut (born in Paris on June 30, 1949) is a French essayist, and son of a Jewish Polish artisan manufacturing fine leather goods who was deported to Auschwitz. He currently teaches at the École polytechnique, an elite engineering college, as professor of the "history of ideas" in the department of humanities and social sciences. Author of a number of books, Finkielkraut is among France's cohort of public intellectuals who appear regularly on talk shows and publish columns in the French media, in Finkielkraut's case from what in France is known as a humanist standpoint; although his supposed humanism has been challenged at many times during his career and frequently deemed quite the opposite of humanism. Sixty professors and researchers at the École polytechnique are known to h...