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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

'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[...]

"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[...]

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[...]

"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[...]

"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[...]