Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Professor Tony Judt was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books , the Times Literary Supplement , the New Republic , the New York Times and many other journals in Europe and the US. His books include Ill Fares the Land , Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century , and Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 , which was one of the New York Times Book Review 's Ten Best Books of 2005, the winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in August, 2010 at the age of 62. Klappentext As 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 even before we could make sense of it. We literally don't know where we came from. In REAPPRAISALS, Tony Judt resurrects key aspects of the world we have lost and reminds us how important they still are to us: now and to our hopes for the future. His book is a road map back to the historical sense we urgently need. Zusammenfassung Argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting', where we have set aside our immediate past before we could even begin to make sense of it. It examines the tragedy of twentieth-century Europe by way of thought-provoking pieces on Hannah Arendt, Edward Said, Albert Camus and Henry Kissinger amongst others.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Judt
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9780099532330
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953233-0
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; PHILOSOPHY / Political, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy