Feb 06 2017
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Celebrated Philosopher, Intellectual and Bestselling Writer
Bernard-Henri Lévy is a master philosopher, journalist, activist and best-selling author of over 30 books, including works of philosophy, fiction, and biography. An advocate of ethics and justice, he broke ground as the leader of the New Philosophers in the 1960s. Maintaining his outspoken streak of activism, he served as a war reporter extensively covering the Middle East and Afghanistan. His eyewitness accounts include philosophical insights about genocide, terrorism and the nature of history have made him a celebrity on the French and international scene.
“One of Europe’s most celebrated thinkers”
Lévy gained renown for his documentary film about the Bosnian conflict, Bosna! after starting his career as a war reporter for Combat. He has undertaken several diplomatic missions for the French government and has travelled to the world’s most troubled areas. In 2008, Lévy received an honorary doctorate from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in December 2009, Foreign Policy magazine ranked him 31st among the “100 Top Global Thinkers.”[/expand]
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s distinctive intellectual mind, combined with his trademark sense of elegance, inspires a new generation of minds to explore, question, and challenge modern thought the world over. [/expand]
Bernard-Henri is a very charismatic, controversial and phlegmatic character who epitomises a passion for life. His lust for searching out the truth has made him truly a unique orator in regular demand on the global stage.[/expand]
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Topics
Learning from History
Today’s and Tomorrow’s Society
Left in Dark Times
Publications
2008
Left in Dark Times: A Stand against the New Barbarism
2006
American Vertigo: Travelling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville, with Charlotte Mandell
2004
Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
2004
War, Evil, and the End of History, with Charlotte Mandell
2003
Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century, with Andrew Brown
1998
L’idéologie française, “French Ideology”
1995
Adventures on the Freedom Road: The French Intellectuals in the 20th Century, with Richard Veasey
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