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  • Published: 1 April 2010
  • ISBN: 9780812974720
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $35.00

Left in Dark Times

A Stand Against the New Barbarism




A L.A. Times bestseller appealing to readers interested in politics and the state of the world.

In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy 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?

At a time of ideological and political transition in America, Left in Dark Times articulates the threats we all face–in many cases without our even being aware of it–and offers a powerful new vision for progressives everywhere.

  • Published: 1 April 2010
  • ISBN: 9780812974720
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $35.00

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Praise for Left in Dark Times

Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review
"When political leaders commit atrocities, intellectuals remind the world of right and wrong. . . . In Left in Dark Times, Bernard-Henri Levy, perhaps the most prominent intellectual in France today, seeks to revive this tradition of speaking truth to power. . . . A moving and inspiring book"--Alan Wolfe, Boston Globe
"Highly absorbing."--Christopher Hitchens, New York Times Book Review
"After reading Left in Dark Times, it is impossible to deny that the left, whatever its past glories . . . is now a danger to truly liberal values."--Adam Kirsch, New York Sun

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