Violence & Left in Dark Times: Bernard-Henri Levy & Slavoj Žižek

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Violence & Left in Dark Times: Bernard-Henri Levy & Slavoj Žižek

16 Sep 2008

Speakers: Slavoj Žižek, Bernard-Henri Levy

Bernard-Henri Lévy, France's "rock-star philosopher," and Slavoj Žižek, the Slovenian "Elvis of cultural theory," scrutinise the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those of the future, as they argue for a new political and moral vision for our times and investigate the limits of tolerance.

Does the advent of capitalism cause more violence than it prevents? Is there violence in the simple idea of the neighbour? asks Žižek in Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (2008).

Are human rights Western or Universal? How is it that progressives themselves - those who in the past defended individual rights and fought fascism - have now become the breeding ground for new kinds of dangerous attitudes? asks Lévy in Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism (2008)