Description
In The Genius of Judaism Europe?s foremost philosopher and activist confronts his own spiritual roots and the religion that has always inspired and shaped him - but that he has never fully reckoned with. The result is a breathtaking new vision and understanding of Judaism and what it means to be a Jew a vision rooted in Talmudic traditions of argument and conflict rather than Biblical commandment. A vision borne out by struggle and study not blind observance. A vision based on an obligation to the other to the dispossessed and to the forgotten- a vision that Levy himself sought to embody over decades of championing lost causes from Bosnia, to Africa?s forgotten wars, to Libya, and to the Kurdish Peshmerga?s desperate fight against ISIL, a battle raging as we speak.Taking us from a fresh, surprising critique of an Anti-Semitism Levy sees on the rise, in a new and stealthy form, to a provocative defense of Israel from the left, to a secret history of the Jewish roots of Western democratic ideals, and a call to confront the current Islamist threat while intellectually dismantling it, Levy explains how Jews are not a chosen people but a treasure whose spirit continues to - and must - inform moral thinking and courage today.
Features
Published Date:
23/08/2017
ISBN:
9780812982510
Author:
Bernard-Henri Levy
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Format:
Paperback / softback
Dimensions:
133 mm x 200 mm x 14 mm
Pages:
256
Language:
English