Reappraisals

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'Judt is a liberal thinker dedicated to demystifying liberal illusions. | Reappraisals is an indispensable tract for the times by one of the great , ; j political writers of the age'John Gray, ;
'Tony Judt has an enviable grasp^f European cultural history and a sharp and sometimes savage turn of phrase, both of which are well displayed in this collection of long essays and book reviews [He is] shrewd and revealing you feel you have been eavesdropping on a sparkling conversation' The Economist i
In Reappraisals award-winning historian Tony Judt argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting' where , we have set aside our immediate past even before we could ' make sense of it. We have lost touch with generations of international policy debate, social thought and public-spirited social activism - and no longer even know how ' to discuss such concepts - and have forgotten the role once played by intellectuals in debating, transmitting and defending the ideas that shaped their... Tovább

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'Judt is a liberal thinker dedicated to demystifying liberal illusions. | Reappraisals is an indispensable tract for the times by one of the great , ; j political writers of the age'John Gray, ;
'Tony Judt has an enviable grasp^f European cultural history and a sharp and sometimes savage turn of phrase, both of which are well displayed in this collection of long essays and book reviews [He is] shrewd and revealing you feel you have been eavesdropping on a sparkling conversation' The Economist i
In Reappraisals award-winning historian Tony Judt argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting' where , we have set aside our immediate past even before we could ' make sense of it. We have lost touch with generations of international policy debate, social thought and public-spirited social activism - and no longer even know how ' to discuss such concepts - and have forgotten the role once played by intellectuals in debating, transmitting and defending the ideas that shaped their time. |
Reappraisals is a masterful collection of essays, examining the. tragedy of twentieth- I century Europe by way of thought-provoking pieces on Hannah Arendt, Edward Said, Albert Camus and Henry Kissinger amongst others. It is a road map back to | the historical sense we urgently need and it is essential reading.
*An exhilarating new collection of essays an historian of the first rani^ Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Times Vissza