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Summary
" Past Imperfectis a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually volatile years [1944-1956]. Mr. Judt...does more than simply describe the ideological acrobats of his subjects; he is a sharp, even a vindictive moralist who indicts these intellectuals for their inhumanity in failing to test their political thought against political reality." #x13; John Sturrock, New York Times Book Review
Author Biography
Tony Judt (1948-2010) was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University and Founding Director of NYU's Remarque Institute. A prominent historian and one of the great political thinkers of our time, Judt was the author of more than a dozen books, including Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts Sciences and of the British Academy, and the recipient of the Orwell Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Judt was a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, among many other publications in Europe, America, and around the world.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Force of Circumstance? | p. 13 |
| Decline and Fall | |
| The French Intellectual Community at the End of the Third Republic | p. 15 |
| In the Light of Experience | |
| The ôLessonsö of Defeat and Occupation | p. 26 |
| Resistance and Revenge | |
| The Semantics of Commitment in the Aftermath of Liberation | p. 45 |
| What Is Political Justice? | |
| Philosophical Anticipations of the Cold War | p. 75 |
| The Blood of Others | p. 99 |
| Show Trials | |
| Political Terror in the East European Mirror, 1947-1953 | p. 101 |
| The Blind Force of History | |
| The Philosophical Case for Terror | p. 117 |
| Today Things Are Clear | |
| Doubts, Dissent, and Awakenings | p. 139 |
| The Treason of the Intellectuals | p. 151 |
| The Sacrifices of the Russian People | |
| A Phenomenology of Intellectual Russophilia | p. 153 |
| About the East We Can Do Nothing | |
| Of Double Standards and Bad Faith | p. 168 |
| America Has Gone Mad | |
| Anti-Americanism in Historical Perspective | p. 187 |
| We Must Not Disillusion the Workers | |
| On the Self-Abnegation and Elective Affinities of the Intellectual | p. 205 |
| The Middle Kingdom | p. 227 |
| Liberalism, There Is the Enemy | |
| On Some Peculiarities of French Political Thought | p. 229 |
| Gesta Dei per Francos | |
| The Frenchness of French Intellectuals | p. 246 |
| Europe and the French Intellectuals | |
| The Responsibilities of Power | p. 275 |
| Conclusion: Goodbye to All That? | p. 293 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 321 |
| Index | p. 335 |
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