The will to see : dispatches from a world of misery and hope / Bernard-Henri Lévy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lévy, Bernard-Henri, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster relief.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2021]

Summary:

An unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, from one of the world's most daring philosopher-reporters.

Over the past fifty years, renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy has reported extensively on human rights abuses around the world. This new book follows the intrepid Levy into eight international hotspots-in Nigeria; Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan; Ukraine; Somalia; Bangladesh; Lesbos, Greece; Libya; and Afghanistan-that have escaped global attention or active response. On a deeply personal introduction, Levy recounts the intellectual journey that led him to advocacy, arguing that a truly humanist philosophy must necessarily lead to action in defense of the most vulnerable. In the second section, he reports on the eight investigative trips he undertook just before or during the coronavirus pandemic, from the massacred Christian villages in Nigeria to a dangerously fragile Afghanistan on the eve of the Taliban talks, from an anti-Semitic ambush in Libya to the overrun refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. Part manifesto, part missives from the field, this new book is a stirring rebuke to indifference and an exhortation to level our gaze at those most hidden from us.

Contents:

PART ONE. MY CREED

1. The Archaeology of a Reflex

2. Man Is Not a Local Adventure

3. Into the Unknown

4. The Adventurer: A Self-Portrait

5. War and Peace

PART TWO. ON THE ROAD

6. Nigeria's Christians Are under Siege!

7. Night of the Kurds

8. Donbass: Trench Warfare Lives on in Europe

9. The End of the World in Mogadishu

10. Return to Bangladesh

11. The Devil Made a Stop at Lesbos

12. Sorrow and Brotherhood in Libya

13. Massoud Lives!

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-26263-9

OCLC:

1267762638