The empire and the five kings : America's abdication and the fate of the world /

The Empire and the Five Kings is a cri de coeur that draws upon lessons from history and the eternal touchstones of human culture to reveal the stakes facing the West as America retreats from its leadership role, a process that did not begin with Donald Trump's presidency and is not likely to e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lévy, Bernard-Henri (Author)
Other Authors:	Kennedy, Steven B. (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2019]
Edition:	First U.S. edition.
Subjects:	World politics > 21st century. PHILOSOPHY / Political. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International) POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security. United States > Foreign relations > 21st century.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: on Dove's feet, the Kurds
The latest news from the empire. Hegel's ghost ; How the word came to America ; Lest I forget you, Jerusalem, Aeneas, Virgil ; Jeremy Bentham and the web ; Thus spake the empire of the eye and of nothingness
Five kingdoms on the offensive. The earth shook in Kurdistan ; Herodotus's trap ; Dante, Abraham, and the war of the five kings ; The brown wave ; The specters' ball
Epilogue: where does the sea go at ebb tide?