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A Stand Against the New Barbarism
Random House
September 2008
On Sale: September 16, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 140006435X
EAN: 9781400064359
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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