Results for “Marx”

In the Footsteps of Tocqueville

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

How does America look to foreign eyes? This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, our keenest interpreter. We asked another Frenchman to travel deep into America and report on what he found.

Biography (1973-1980)

Recruited by Françoise Verny in 1973, Lévy joins Editions Grasset as editor of three collections (Enjeux, Figures, Théoriciens) before becoming, in 1976, the head...

Biography (1981-1987)

In 1981 Grasset publishes L’Idéologie Française, Lévy’s denunciation of “fascism in the colors of France.” The author quickly becomes the center...

The Testament of God

Published in January 1980

In this book Lévy turns to the text of the Bible to replace the claims of a Marxist ideal society. He demonstrates that the prophets of the Book are the founders of the idea of Resistance. “The Testament of God” comes out and says that the answers to our questions lie in the scriptures.

The Genius of Judaism and Bernard-Henri Lévy

Adam Kirsch, Tablet, January 20, 2017

The morally minded French public intellectual applies 21st-century chutzpah to our radical age.

Biography

Bernard-Henri Lévy, known most widely as a philosopher and nonfiction writer, is also a novelist, filmmaker, and playwright. He is...