It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. In 2008, historian Tony Judt learnt that he was suf[...]
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 activis[...]
Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as f[...]
Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Both travellers are professional historians still tormented by their own unanswered questions[...]
A history of contemporary Europe includes coverage of thirty-four countries and draws on a wide range of newly available sources to document the region's economic development, culture, politics, and more, in a volume complemented by maps, photos, and cartoon illustrations. Reprint. 75,000 first prin[...]
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 entere[...]
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith
Something has gone profoundly amiss in our public affairs over the past thirty years. In the West we are wealthy and secure enough to allow ourselves to drift very far off[...]
Selected by "The New York Times Book Review" as a Notable Book of the Year Final reflections on a happy life-from acclaimed historian Tony Judt. Tony Judt's "The Memory Chalet" is a memoir unlike any other. Each essay brings the smallest details of personal experience into the larger frame of histo[...]
"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th century thought." ("Los Angeles Times") One of our most brilliant historians, Tony Judt brings the past century vividly to life in this unprecedented and ori[...]
An unprecedented and original history of intellectual life throughout the past century.
"Thinking the Twentieth Century" is the final book of unparalleled historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt. Where Judt's masterpiece Postwar redefined the history of modern Europe by uniting[...]
A collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century, that spans a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement. It includes essays that are centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory.[...]
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith. Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whateve[...]
"Unlike most books, which treat labor, Socialist and Communist history separately and view French Marxism as a self-contained philosophical phenomenon, Marxism and the French Left offers a refreshingly different approach to the subject. Judt emphasizes the complex and interwoven themes that unify th[...]
"Past Imperfect is a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually volatile years [1944-1956]. Mr. Judt...does more than simply describe the ideological acrobats of his subjects; he is a sharp, even a vindictive moralist who indicts these intellectuals for their inhumanity in faili[...]
"I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite recent past. But it is one thing to think an outcome desirable, quite another to suppos[...]
In his final book, completed just before his death, Edward W. Said offers impassioned pleas for the beleaguered Palestinian cause from one of its most eloquent spokesmen. These essays, which originally appeared in Cairo's "Al-Ahram Weekly, London's "Al-Hayat, and the" London Review of Books, take us[...]
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith
Something has gone profoundly amiss in our public affairs over the past thirty years. In the West we are wealthy and secure enough to allow ourselves to drift very far off[...]
"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th century thought." ("Los Angeles Times")
The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, "Thinking the Twentieth Centu[...]
In an age in which the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, the historian Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing together history and current events, Europe and America, what was and what is with what should be. In "When the Facts Change," Tony Judt's[...]
"Europa, der so genannte alte Kontinent, hat sich in den letzten sechs Jahrzehnten so rasant verändert wie kaum eine andere Region der Erde. Dem Weltkrieg folgte der Kalte Krieg, was für die Hälfte der Europäer vierzig Jahre diktatorischer Herrschaft bedeutete. Die Revolutionen von 1989 überwan[...]
I oktober 2009 höll Tony Judt ett föredrag om välfärdssamhällets och socialdemokratins framtid som åhörarna aldrig kommer att glömma. Det som gjorde intryck var inte bara det angelägna ämnet och talarens glöd, utan också omständigheterna.
Den tidigare så fysiskt vitale histo[...]
För två år sedan fick den då sextioårige Tony Judt besked om att han led av amyotrofisk lateralskleros. Prognosen för denna allvarliga neurologiska sjukdom var obeveklig: Hans muskler skulle gradvis upphöra att fungera. Inom en snar framtid skulle han vara död.
För den förlamade[...]