Occasion – Reflections on War, Evil and the End of History, The Damned of War Bernard-Henri Lévy

Author(s): Lévy Bernard-Henri Publisher: Grasset & Fasquelle Publication: 10/17/2001 Number of pages: 410 Number of books: 1 Weight: 472 g Dimensions: 20.5 x 13 x 3 EAN: 9782246620211 Summary:

Is it the end or the return of History? What's going on in a kamikaze's mind? Why did Hegel and Kojève believe that Evil has no future? What did Commander Massoud confide to the author of this book in 1981 and then in 1998? What do the ruins of Sarajevo and Manhattan say? How did a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, a disciple of Althusser, find himself, at 20, in the jungles of East Pakistan? Was Michel Foucault a better journalist than Hemingway? Why is war so "beautiful" for Proust, Apollinaire, and Cocteau? When did the world shift from Clausewitz's logic to that of Osama bin Laden? What good can philosophy do in the suburbs of Bogota and Bujumbura? Would it be enough, to stop the massacre, to reach out to the damned of the Third World? What do terrorists want?