Agenda

Événement en anglais. Présentation de l’organisateur :

Join one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals for a trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society.

With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this free livestreamed conversation with Hannah MacInnes, world-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy will interrogate the many meanings and metaphors we have assigned to the pandemic—and what they tell us about ourselves.

Drawing on the philosophical tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Lacan and Foucault, Lévy will ask uncomfortable questions about reality and mythology. Rejecting the idea that the virus is a warning from nature, troubling the heroic status of doctors, asking us to think critically about the loci of authority and power, Lévy will present a lucid, incisive and original exploration of the most consequential historical event of our time – and propose a way to defend human society from threats to our collective future.