Tag: Bernard Henri Levy
Bernard-Henri Levy: ‘Hortatory Adventure Seeker’?
by Jim Benning | 06.08.11 | 1:54 PM ET
A piece in BookForum makes that case, among others, about the French celebrity philosopher sometimes known as BHL.
It is false to say, as some do, that “only France” could produce such a figure as Lévy. He is a type of journalist recognizable in any country—the hortatory adventure seeker, prescribing foreign travel as a moral tonic for an enervated West. The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who tours the world harvesting the grievances of suffering humanity and cooks them into a meal of moral authority for his untraveled readers, is engaged in a similar project. So were the late Italian reporters Oriana Fallaci and Tiziano Terzani. The writing that results from Lévy’s public activism is sometimes entertaining and sometimes even admirable. But it is hard to see anything philosophical about it.
BHL spoke to World Hum in 2006 about his philosophical travelogue, “American Vertigo.”
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Yahoo! BuzzBernard-Henri Lévy: Suffering From “American Vertigo”
by Terry Ward | 02.10.06 | 12:38 AM ET
Photograph of Bernard-Henri Lévy by Thierry Dudoit/L'Express/Editing. Terry Ward asks France's rock star philosopher, BHL, about his journey in Tocqueville's footsteps and the value of traveling par hasard
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