Results for “Philosophe

‘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.

Review: Bernard-Henri Lévy shows the fight for survival from the trenches in ‘Slava Ukraini’

Robert Abele, The Los Angeles Times, May 04, 2023

The war diary that is “Slava Ukraini” filmed by BHL is a reminder that on the ground, Ukrainians are in this to defeat their invaders, whatever it takes.

Bernard-Henri Levy: ‘I’ve always found it quite shocking and beautiful to speak to one’s enemy’

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), The Times of Israel, June 10, 2017

On recent trip to Israel, French-Jewish intellectual promoted his new book on Judaism and explained what it’s like to be a modern-day Jonah.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: ‘Those who hate me, it is their problem’

JC, The Jewish Chronicle, March 31, 2016

France's great thinker on why, despite terrorist atrocities and rising levels of hate, he remains defiantly positive.

Second Government (Bernard-Henri Levy)

Tom Teicholz, Jewish Journal, March 28, 2004

“War, Evil and the End of History”, was published in English. Levy traveled to five of the world’s unheralded hot spots: Sri Lanka, Burundi, Colombia, Sudan and Angola. His first-person accounts of “forgotten wars” are chilling.

Bernard-Henri Lévy bares his Jewish soul

Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal, January 11, 2017

Philosophers only rarely achieve the celebrity of a rock star or a sports hero, but Bernard-Henri Lévy, who has been described as “France’s greatest philosopher,” is an exception.

Bernard-Henri Lévy on Anti-Semitism, the Diaspora and the ‘Miracle’ That Is Israel

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Jewish Journal, March 27, 2019

“The Empire and the Five Kings: America’s Abdication and the Fate of the World,” written by BHL, takes on the implications of 21st-century American Isolationism.

Nuart Retrospective Presents the War Documentaries of Bernard-Henri Lévy

Gerri Miller, Jewish Journal, January 21, 2021

BHL makes cinema verité documentaries from the front lines of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, depicting war in all its brutality to highlight the plight of the oppressed.

“Every Hour Counts:” Bernard-Henri Lévy Sounds the Alarm for “Total Victory” in Ukraine

David Suissa, Jewish Journal, April 27, 2023

The overriding message of his new film, “Slava Ukraini,” is that the civilized world cannot afford anything less than “total victory” for Ukraine, lest it puts us at risk of another world war.

The Genius of Literature

Paul Berman, Tablet, May 16, 2017

Bernard-Henri Lévy draws from the well of late-18th-century French philosopher Chateaubriand for a broad defense of the aesthetics and morals of liberalism.