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| 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. | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| Publisher | Penguin Publishing Group |
| ISBN-10 | 0143115057 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780143115052 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 69737197 |
| Product Key Features | |
| Author | Tony Judt |
| Format | United Kingdom-B Format Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Publication Year | 2009 |
| Number of Pages | 464 Pages |
| Dimensions | |
| Item Length | 8.4in. |
| Item Height | 1in. |
| Item Width | 5.5in. |
| Item Weight | 15 Oz |
| Additional Product Features | |
| Age Range | 18-Up |
| Grade from | Twelfth Grade |
| Grade to | Up |
| Reviews | "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, "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, 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 Content | Reappraisals Acknowledgments 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 |
| Target Audience | Trade |
| Topic | Historiography, Modern / 20th Century, History & Theory |
| Dewey Decimal | 909.82 |
| Dewey Edition | 22 |
| Genre | History, Political Science |