Reappraisals : Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
by Judt, TonyEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2009-03-31
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary
Tony Judt is on e of today's leading historians and thinkers. Winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize in 2007, his previous book, Postwar, was hailed as "monumental . . . a tour de force"by Foreign Affairs, among other leading publications. In Reappraisals, he persuasively argues that we have entered an "age of forgetting." 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 to the displacement of history by heritage, Judt takes us beyond what we think we know of the past to explain how we came to know it, and shows how much of our history has been sacrificed in the triumph of myth-making over understanding and denial over memory.
Author Biography
Tony Judt is the author of twelve books, including Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. He is a professor at New York University and the director and founder of the Remarque Institute, which is dedicated to the study of Europe.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction The World We Have Lost | p. 1 |
| The Heart of Darkness | p. 23 |
| Arthur Koestler, the Exemplary Intellectual | p. 25 |
| The Elementary Truths of Primo Levi | p. 44 |
| The Jewish Europe of Manès Sperber | p. 63 |
| Hannah Arendt and Evil | p. 73 |
| The Politics of Intellectual Engagement | p. 93 |
| Albert Camus: "The best man in France" | p. 95 |
| Elucubrations: The "Marxism" of Louis Althusser | p. 106 |
| Eric Hobsbawm and the Romance of Communism | p. 116 |
| Goodbye to All That? Leszek Kolakowski and the Marxist Legacy | p. 129 |
| A "Pope of Ideas"? John Paul II and the Modern World | p. 147 |
| Edward Said: The Rootless Cosmopolitan | p. 163 |
| Lost in Transition: Places and Memories | p. 179 |
| The Catastrophe: The Fall of France, 1940 | p. 181 |
| A la recherche du temps perdu: France and Its Pasts | p. 196 |
| The Gnome in the Garden: Tony Blair and Britain's "Heritage" | p. 219 |
| The Stateless State: Why Belgium Matters | p. 233 |
| Romania between History and Europe | p. 250 |
| Dark Victory: Israel's Six-Day War | p. 268 |
| The Country That Wouldn't Grow Up | p. 286 |
| The American (Half-) Century | p. 297 |
| An American Tragedy? The Case of Whittaker Chambers | p. 299 |
| The Crisis: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Cuba | p. 314 |
| The Illusionist: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy | p. 341 |
| Whose Story Is It? The Cold War in Retrospect | p. 368 |
| The Silence of the Lambs: On the Strange Death of Liberal America | p. 384 |
| The Good Society: Europe vs. America | p. 393 |
| p. 411 | |
| Publication Credits | p. 433 |
| Index | p. 435 |
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