Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism

✍ Scribed by Levy, Bernard-Henri

• Book ID: 109126718
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 350 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781588367570

✦ Synopsis

In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world's leading intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Are human rights Western or universal? Does anti-Semitism have a future, and, if so, what will it look like? And how is it that progressives themselves--those who in the past defended individual rights and fought fascism--have now become the breeding ground for new kinds of dangerous attitudes: an unthinking loathing of Israel; an obsessive anti-Americanism; an idea of "tolerance" that, in its justification of Islamic fanaticism, for example, could become the "cemetery of democracies"; and an indifference, masked by relativism, to the greatest human tragedies facing the world today? Illuminating these and other questions, Lévy also brings to life his own autobiography, highlighting the thinkers he has...