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**An unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, from one of the world's most daring philosopher-reporters****"Fierce and elegant, Lévy's musings will be of profound interest to any reader of modern continental philosophy."—__Kirkus Reviews__, starred review** Over the past fifty years, renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy has reported extensively on human rights abuses around the world. This new book follows the intrepid Lévy into eight international hotspots—in Nigeria; Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan; Ukraine; Somalia; Bangladesh; Lesbos, Greece; Libya; and Afghanistan—that have escaped global attention or active response. In a deeply personal introduction, Lévy recounts the intellectual journey that led him to advocacy, arguing that a truly humanist philosophy must necessarily lead to action in defense of the most vulnerable. In the second section, he reports on the eight investigative trips he undertook just before or during the coronavirus pandemic, from the massacred Christian villages in Nigeria to a dangerously fragile Afghanistan on the eve of the Taliban talks, from an anti-Semitic ambush in Libya to the overrun refugee camp on the isl

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Bernard-Henri Lvy; Steven B. Kennedy
Publisher
Yale University Press
Published
2021
Language
EN
ISBN
9780300262636
Category
philosophy
Subjects
Political Science, History, Philosophy
Rating
4 / 5 (58 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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