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‘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.

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'.

Exclusive reading of french philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy’s new book on the coronavirus

Donatien Grau, Purple, June 01, 2020

BHL offers fresh insights on the experience we have been living all over the world, its political, mediatic, philosophical, human implications – with and beyond COVID-19 itself.

‘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.

‘We are all making a huge mistake’

Jenni Frazer, The Jewish Chronicle, August 20, 2020

France's leading intellectual, Bernard-Henri Lévy thinks the world has got it wrong on coronavirus.

Sartre

Published in September 2003

Bernard-Henri Levy shows how Sartre cannot be understood without taking into account his relations with the intellectual forebears and contemporaries, the lovers and friends, with whom he conducted a lifelong debate. His thinking was essentially a tumultuous dialogue with his whole age and himself.

Barbarism With a Human Face

Published in January 1980

“Barbarism With A Human Face”, the first Bernard-Henri Lévy's book, one of the high members of the “new philosophers”, ​is a book of iconoclastic prophecy, whose central intention is to show that behind the mask of revolutionary benevolence hums the motor of absolute evil.

Adventures on the Freedom Road

Published in October 1995

As this century saw the rise first of Communism, then of Fascism, French intellectuals have hurried to take sides and devote their writings to the good of their chosen Cause. To follow Bernard-Henri Levy, one of the high members of the “new philosophers”, in his quest is an altogether stimulating exercise.

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 Virus and My Friend Bernard

David Samuels, Tablet, September 30, 2020

Q&A with Bernard-Henri Lévy.

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