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The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope

Maybe someday

30

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

8/100

Critics

53/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Steven B. Kennedy

Publisher:

Yale University Press

Date:

October 26, 2021

A look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, from a philosopher-reporter.

What The Reviewers Say

Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic
... don’t let the instinct to insult [Levy] overwhelm you, for the book and the film raise questions that are rarely posed so starkly.
Tunku Varadarajan,
The Wall Street Journal
... a pugnacious little book—part reportage, part autobiographical manifesto—written by a man whose conscience is frozen in time. That judgment isn’t meant as a put-down. It’s a way of saying that the moral compass of its author, the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, appears not to have been reset since he graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1971.

Kirkus
... an intellectual biography-cum-manifesto.