Dimensions
132 x 203 x 15mm
In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Levy 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 themselvesuthose who in the past defended individual rights and fought fascismuhave now become the breeding ground for new kinds of dangerous attitudes: an unthinking loathing of Israel; an obsessive anti-Americanism; an idea of toleranceo that, in its justification of Islamic fanaticism, for example, could become the cemetery of democracieso; 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 faceuin many cases without our even being aware of ituand offers a powerful new vision for progressives everywhere.
