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Reappraisals

Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

By Tony Judt

By Tony Judt

By Tony Judt

By Tony Judt

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    About Reappraisals

    “Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural history of the past century.” —Forbes

    We have entered an age of forgetting. Our world, we insist, is unprecedented, wholly new. The past has nothing to teach us. Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range of subjects, from Jewish intellectuals and the challenge of evil in the recent European past to the interpretation of the Cold War and the displacement of history by heritage, the late historian Tony Judt takes us beyond what we think we know of the past to explain how we came to know it, showing how much of our history has been sacrificed in the triumph of myth—making over understanding and denial over memory. Reappraisals offers a much-needed road map back to the historical sense we urgently need.

    Judt’s book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.

    About Reappraisals

    “Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural history of the past century.” —Forbes

    We have entered an age of forgetting. Our world, we insist, is unprecedented, wholly new. The past has nothing to teach us. Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range of subjects, from Jewish intellectuals and the challenge of evil in the recent European past to the interpretation of the Cold War and the displacement of history by heritage, the late historian Tony Judt takes us beyond what we think we know of the past to explain how we came to know it, showing how much of our history has been sacrificed in the triumph of myth—making over understanding and denial over memory. Reappraisals offers a much-needed road map back to the historical sense we urgently need.

    Judt’s book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.

    Also by Tony Judt

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    Also by Tony Judt

    When the Facts Change
    Thinking the Twentieth Century
    The Memory Chalet
    Ill Fares the Land
    Postwar
    See all books by Tony Judt

    About Tony Judt

    Tony Judt (1948-2010) was educated at King’s College, Cambridge, and l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley. He was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New University and the director of the Remarque… More about Tony Judt

    About Tony Judt

    Tony Judt (1948-2010) was educated at King’s College, Cambridge, and l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley. He was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New University and the director of the Remarque… More about Tony Judt

    Product Details

    Category: World History | Politics

    Paperback | $30.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 31, 2009 | 464 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143115052

    Category: World History | Politics

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Apr 17, 2008 | 464 Pages | ISBN 9781440634550

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    Praise

    “Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural history of the past century.” —Forbes

    “By turns fascinating [and] edifying . . . Judt is one of our foremost historians of Europe, an elegant writer and subtle thinker.” —Los Angeles Times

    Table Of Contents

    ReappraisalsAcknowledgments

    Introduction: The World We Have Lost

    Part One: The Heart of Darkness

    Chapter I: Arthur Koestler, the Exemplary Intellectual
    Chapter II: The Elementary Truths of Primo Levi
    Chapter III: The Jewish Europe of Manes Sperber
    Chapter IV: Hannah Arendt and Evil

    Part Two: The Politics of Intellectual Engagement

    Chapter V: Albert Camus: “The best man in France”
    Chapter VI: Elucubrations: The “Marxism” of Louis Althusser
    Chapter VII: Eric Hobsbawm and the Romance of Communism
    Chapter VIII: Goodbye to All That? Leszek Kotakowski and the Marxist Legacy
    Chapter IX: A “Pope of Ideas”? John Paul II and the Modern World
    Chapter X: Edward Said: The Rootless Cosmopolitan

    Part Three: Lost in Transition: Places and Memories

    Chapter XI: The Catastrophe: The Fall of France, 1940
    Chapter XII: A la recherche du temps perdu: France and Its Pasts
    Chapter XIII: The Gnome in the Garden: Tony Blair and Britain’s “Heritage”
    Chapter XIV: The Stateless State: Why Belgium Matters
    Chapter XV: Romania between History and Europe
    Chapter XVI: Dark Victory: Israel’s Six-Day War
    Chapter XVII: The Country That Wouldn’t Grow Up

    Part Four: The American (Half-) Century

    Chapter XVIII: An American Tragedy? The Case of Whittaker Chambers
    Chapter XIX: The Crisis: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Cuba
    Chapter XX: The Illusionist: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy
    Chapter XXI: Whose Story Is It? The Cold War in Retrospect
    Chapter XXII: The Silence of the Lambs: On the Strange Death of Liberal America
    Chapter XXIII: The Good Society: Europe vs. America

    Envoi: The Social Question Redivivus

    Publication Credits
    Index

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