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Philosophy in America

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Foreign Policy, October 20, 2009

After spending the last few years investigating the international jihadi movement in Pakistan, Lévy crossed the Atlantic to retrace Alexis de Toqueville’s journey through America. FP asked him what he’s learned on his travels.

‘New Philosopher’; Bernard-Henri Levy

Stewart McBride, The CS Monitor, January 20, 1983

Levy is perhaps the best known and most iconoclastic of France's ''Nouveaux Philosophes,'' During the last six years, Levy has personally waged war against socialism in three controversial best sellers.

Bernard-Henri Lévy Implores Documentarians to Film the Front Lines of War

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Jewish Journal, December 07, 2023

French philosopher and filmmaker Bernard Henri-Lévy’s new documentary, “Glory to the Heroes,” is a raw collection of the battles and fears on the front lines of the Ukraine-Russia War in the summer of 2023.

Portrait of Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Purple, May 10, 2011

The rules of the game: names, a collection of names, all of which had one thing in common: they had in one way or another played a part in BHL's intellectual or personal life.

Spinoza’s Ethics

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Purple, May 10, 2011

BHL evokes an extract from a work that seems to him to deal with something crucial in today's world. He introduces an extract from Spinoza's 'Ethics'.

Radical Evokes This

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Purple, October 17, 2017

The radical party in the memory of the twentieth century is synonymous with everything that is most mediocre, most corrupt, most hostile to greatness in French politics.

On war and its dehumanization

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Purple, January 09, 2023

As a philosopher, what is BHL's idea of war? Is war fundamentally human? Is man, in the end, a wolf who hunts man? Or is there still hope of eradicating war?

In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V)

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Atlantic, November 01, 2005

A twenty-first-century pilgrim ends a year-long journey where the seventeenth-century Pilgrims ended theirs—on the coast of New England, not far from where his travels began.

Public Enemies

Tim Souster, Financial Times, February 07, 2011

In "Public enemies" both write best about their professional enthusiasms: Houellebecq on writing; Lévy on philosophy.

‘Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism’ by Bernard-Henri Levy

Tim Rutten, The Los Angeles Times, October 08, 2008

“Left in Dark Times" is an apologia based on ideals and experience and then on a series of critiques of the left’s shortcomings, followed by concrete suggestions for their remedy.