Reappraisals

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"By turns fascinating [and] edifying . . . Judt is one of our foremost historians of Europe, an elegant writer and subtle thinker." -The Los Angeles Times
As Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Tony Judt argues persuasively in Reappraisals, we have entered an "age of forgetting." Today's world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past before we could make sense of It. Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range of subjects, 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. Reappraisals offers a much-needed road map back to the historical sense we urgently need.
"Here in one volume is assembled perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social and cultural history of the past century. . . . What is stunning in... Tovább

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"By turns fascinating [and] edifying . . . Judt is one of our foremost historians of Europe, an elegant writer and subtle thinker." -The Los Angeles Times
As Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Tony Judt argues persuasively in Reappraisals, we have entered an "age of forgetting." Today's world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past before we could make sense of It. Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range of subjects, 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. Reappraisals offers a much-needed road map back to the historical sense we urgently need.
"Here in one volume is assembled perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social and cultural history of the past century. . . . What is stunning in Reappraisals is to see a historian of these and earlier decades place it all in perspective—a vast and grand mosaic of the human spirit that is at once uplifting and profoundly instructive for the world we live in and the new century which is beginning, alas, not so differently than the previous one." -FORBES
"[Judt] has an enviable grasp of European cultural history and a sharp and savage turn of phrase . . .shrewd and revealing." -THE ECONOMIST
"As a fascinating exploration of the world we have recently lost—for good or bad, or both—this collection . . . cannot be bested."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) Vissza