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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 320.5 EAN: 9781400064359 Edition: Tra ISBN: 140006435X Label: Random House Manufacturer: Random House Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: September 16, 2008 Publisher: Random House Release Date: September 16, 2008 Studio: Random House Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world’s leading intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Are human rights Western or universal? Does anti-Semitism have a future, and, if so, what will it look like? And how is it that progressives themselves–those who in the past defended individual rights and fought fascism–have now become the breeding ground for new kinds of dangerous attitudes: an unthinking loathing of Israel; an obsessive anti-Americanism; an idea of “tolerance” that, in its justification of Islamic fanaticism, for example, could become the “cemetery of democracies”; and an indifference, masked by relativism, to the greatest human tragedies facing the world today? Illuminating these and other questions, Lévy also brings to life his own autobiography, highlighting the thinkers he has known and scrutinized and the ideological battles he has fought over thirty years–revealing their bearing on the present. Above all, Lévy offers a powerful new vision for progressives everywhere, one based neither on the failed idealisms of the past neither nor on their current misguided, bigoted, and dangerously sentimental attachments but on an absolute commitment to combat evil in all its guises. The “new barbarism” Levy compellingly diagnoses is real and must be confronted. At a time of ideological and political transition in America, Left in Dark Times is a polemical, incendiary articulation of the threats we all face–in many cases without our even being aware of it–and a riveting, cogent stand against those threats. Surprising and sure to be controversial, wise and free of cynicism, it is one of the most important books yet written by one of the crucial voices of our time. Praise for Bernard-Henri Lévy’s American Vertigo “An entertaining trip, as much in the tradition of Jack Kerouac as Tocqueville.” –The New York Times “Perceptive, pugnacious, passionate [and] exquisitely written.” –The New York Observer “It’s difficult to remember when a writer of any nationality so clearly and thoughtfully delineated both the good and bad in America. [Grade:] A.” –Entertainment Weekly (Editor’s Choice) “Lévy is a true friend of the American experiment and a comrade in the American struggle against the barbarisms.” –The New Republic “Lévy writes brilliantly. American Vertigo is filled with insights and goodwill.” –The Wall Street Journal “Provocative . . . [Lévy is] a writer of enormous power and vitality.” –San Francisco Chronicle “Vigorous . . . impressive.” –The Boston Globe Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Philosophical treatiseVery hard for Americans to get. Obtuse, intellectual. I am sure it said something great but, it must mean a lot more to the French thinker. Rating:  - French fareInteresting review of the [ mostly[ French "Left" but requires not only a knowledge of French politics but all of the interpersonal feuds and nitpicks among the French intelligentsia to understand much of the book. It is full of " I'm right and the're wrong" casting more heat than light on the differences. Rating:  - The night comes onPart autobiography, part political essay & part ideological polemic, Left In Dark Times is a survey of this prominent leftwing French intellectual's political roots, a look at old & new varieties of authoritarianism and a plea for a fresh moral vision. Having observed the mindless and juvenile parroting of consensus ideas by the Stepford Left, he analyzed the development of Leftist thought, identifying the four pillars of its current manifestation as: (a) Indifference to suffering using ... Read More Rating:  - A brilliant analysis of the sins of the Left Like many of those on the sane Left Bernard Henri- Levy has become disturbed with the strange alliance of the Left with the neo- Fascists, the xenophobic, the American bashers, the Anti- Semites, the preachers of Radical Islam. The Left's abandonment of traditional values and allies is considered here by a writer who has shown not simply integrity in thought, but courage in action. Henri- Levy is one of the few well- known thinkers living today who is also a journalist in the best sense of the world, ... Read More Rating: - so sadI had the idea that the great thinkers had given up on politics, based on how much disbelief I run into when I manifest radical tendencies. If I could limit myself to "Let's drop fascism," I would have many points in common with the universal theme that provides much of the motivation for the many intellectual threads that the book traces through the hectic politics of the present situation. When I talk about trouble, I mean what happens when I get nasty, and to get really nasty with this book, I would ... Read More 
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