Bernard-Henri Lévy
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2020
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xvii, 106 pages ; 241 cm
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World-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy interrogates the many meanings and metaphors we have assigned to the coronavirus pandemic--and what they tell us about ourselves. Lévy takes a bird's-eye view of the most consequential historical event of our time and proposes a way to defend human society from threats to our collective future."--Publisher's description.
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One of the West's leading intellectuals offers a provocative look at America's withdrawal from world leadership and the rising powers who seek to fill the vacuum left behind.
The United States was once the hope of the world, a beacon of freedom and the defender of liberal democracy. Nations and peoples on all continents looked to America to stand up for the values that created the Western worldand to oppose autocracy and repression. Even when America...