Bernard-Henri Lévy: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Bernard-Henri Lévy (born November 5, 1948) is a contemporary French philosopher. He is a leftist, but was repelled by the Cambodian disaster of Pol Pot and has concluded that such totalitarian evils result from excessive efforts to realize a "good world". He so characterizes radical Islamism.

He is the author of around 30 books in French; some have been translated into English, most recently, Who Killed Daniel Pearl. He is fluent in English.

Books in English

• Bernard-Henri Levy, Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, Melville House Publishing, September 2003, hardcover, 454 pages, ISBN 0971865949
• Bernard-Henri Levy, translated by Andrew Brown, Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century, Polity Press, July 2003, hardcover, 456 pages, ISBN 074563009X
• Edited by Bernard-Henry Levy, Bernard-Henri Levy, What Good Are Intellectuals: 44 Writers Share Their Thoughts, Algora Publishing, 2000, paperback, 276 pages, ISBN 1892941104
• Bernard Henri Levy, Richard Veasey, Bernard-Henry Levy, Richard Veasy, Adventures on the Freedom Road Harvill Press (an imprint of Random House), 1995, hardcover, ISBN 1860460356