Saturday, September 20
8:00 pm
The Gerald L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism
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Venue: La Maison Française, Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir Road NW

In Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism, one of the world’s leading intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizing the current atmosphere and arguing powerfully for a new political and moral vision.

What is the future of anti-Semitism? And how is it that progressives—those who for decades defended individual rights and fought fascism—have now become the breeding ground for new kinds of dangers: an extreme loathing of Israel, an obsessive anti-Americanism, or an indifference, masked by relativism, to the greatest human tragedies facing the world today?

Illuminating these and other questions, Lévy also explores his own intellectual history—the thinkers and politicians he has known and examined, the ideological battles he has fought over thirty years—and its bearing on the present.

Bernard-Henri Lévy is a French public intellectual and preeminent journalist. He began his career as a war reporter for Combat, the famous underground newspaper. In 1971, he traveled to the Indian Subcontinent, and was in Bangladesh covering the war of independence against Pakistan. This experience was the source of his first book, Bangla-Desh, Nationalism in the Revolution. He is the author of several other works of non-fiction, including the controversial Who Killed Daniel Pearl? and American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville. He is the founder of the New Philosophers school.

This annual lecture is made possible by a generous endowment from Tamara and Harry Handelsman in honor of the memory of Tamara Handelsman’s brother, Gerald L. Bernstein.

Co-sponsored by the Embassy of France, La Maison Française and the French-American Cultural Foundation

This program will be ASL interpreted.

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