Bernard-Henri Lévy
Author
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"[This book] is a breathtaking new vision and understanding of what it means to be a Jew, a vision quite different from the one we're used to. It is rooted in the Talmudic traditions of argument and conflict, rather than biblical commandments, borne out in struggle and study, not in blind observance. At the very heart of the matter is an obligation to the other, to the dispossessed, and to the forgotten, an obligation that, as Lévy vividly recounts,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States—two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters.
In one corner, Bernard-Henri Lévy, creator of the classic Barbarism with a Human Face, dismissed by the media as a wealthy, self-promoting, arrogant do-gooder. In the other, Michel Houellebecq, bestselling author of The...
In one corner, Bernard-Henri Lévy, creator of the classic Barbarism with a Human Face, dismissed by the media as a wealthy, self-promoting, arrogant do-gooder. In the other, Michel Houellebecq, bestselling author of The...
3) Israel alone
Author
Publisher
Wicked Son, an imprint of Post Hill Press
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Bernard-Henri Lévy's Israel Alone is a passionate and outraged cri-de-coeur about the loneliness of Israel and the tragedy of October 7, starting with Lévy's eyewitness account the day after the pogroms. On October 8, 2024, Bernard-Henri Lévy flew to Israel to bear witness to the unprecedented invasion and massacre committed by Hamas. Israel Alone begins here and weaves in Lévy's fifty years on the ground in Israel, from his first trip in 1967,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Publication Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Empire and the Five Kings is a cri de coeur that draws upon lessons from history and the eternal touchstones of human culture to reveal the stakes facing the West as America retreats from its leadership role, a process that did not begin with Donald Trump's presidency and is not likely to end with him. The crisis is one whose roots can be found as far back as antiquity and whose resolution will require the West to find a new way forward if its...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Over the past fifty years, renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy has reported extensively on human rights abuses around the world. This new book follows the intrepid Levy into eight international hotspots-in Nigeria; Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan; Ukraine; Somalia; Bangladesh; Lesbos, Greece; Libya; and Afghanistan-that have escaped global attention or active response. On a deeply personal introduction, Levy recounts the intellectual journey...
Author
Series
Tiempo de memoria volume 33
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Publication Date
2003.
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"World-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy interrogates the many meanings and metaphors we have assigned to the coronavirus pandemic--and what they tell us about ourselves. Levy takes a bird's-eye view of the most consequential historical event of our time and proposes a way to defend human society from threats to our collective future."--Publisher's description.
Series
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923
Publication Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An essential addition to the Stone Reader series, Question Everything is a groundbreaking collection of philosophical essays from some of our foremost thinkers and storytellers. When The Stone Reader--a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times' award-winning philosophy column--first published, in 2015, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a bulwark of reason against the rising tide of post-fact...