Bernard-Henri Lévy

Philosopher, journalist, and activist Bernard- Henri Lévy was born in Béni Saf, Algeria; his family moved to Paris shortly thereafter. Lévy studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, and later began his journalism career as a war reporter for the underground newspaper Combat. In the 1970s Lévy taught epistemology at the Université de Strasbourg and philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure. One of the leaders of the Nouvelle Philosophie movement in the 1970s, he cofounded the Institute for Levinassian Studies in Jerusalem.