The Genius of Judaism
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (915 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N4I5OKB |
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| Number of Pages | : | 172 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mike Beidel said Four Stars. Most interesting though informed by his Jewish background.. Awesome book! Great insights!. Zeljko Z. said Not to miss.. Wonderful book in a convoluted presentation of Bernard Henry. It is an honest deeply felt exposition coming from Bernards brain and heart. His historical knowledge and social experience and philosophical insights are unmatched. This book is thoughtful and even though it reflects Bernard personal Gestalt it remains objective. It is a intellectual exercise artistic and religious experience.I recommend it highly to intellectually mindedand motivated readers.
At the very heart of the matter is an obligation to the other, to the dispossessed, and to the forgotten, an obligation that, as Lévy vividly recounts, he has sought to embody over decades of championing "lost causes", from Bosnia to Africa's forgotten wars, from Libya to the Kurdish Peshmerga's desperate fight against the Islamic State, a battle raging as we speak. The Genius of Judaism is a breathtaking new vision and understanding of what it means to be a Jew, a vision quite different from the one we're used to. He reveals the overlooked Jewish roots of Western democratic ideals and confronts the current Islamist threat while intellectually dismantling it. It is rooted in the Talmudic traditions of argument and conflict, rather than biblical commandments, borne out in struggle and study, not in blind observance. For more than four decades, Bernard-Henri Lévy has been a singular figure on the world stage -