Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotton Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century.

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Gut. XIV, 448 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, leichte Flecken auf Kopfschnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber / dust jacket slightly rubbed, light stains on top edge, otherwise very good and clean. - 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, and the results of this burgeoning ignorance are proving calamitous, with the clear prospect of worse to come. We have lost touch with three generations of international policy debate, social thought, and public-spirited social activism. We no longer know how to discuss such vital issues of public policy and we have forgotten the role once played by intellectuals in debating, transmitting, and defending the ideas that shaped their time. 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. Judt draws provocative connections between a dazzling range of subjects: from Jewish intellectuals and the challenge of "evil" in the recent European past to the interpretation of the Cold War; from the rise and fall of the state in public affairs to the displacement of history by "heritage." Ranging with his trademark acuity and élan from Belgium to Israel, from the memory of Marxism to the practice of foreign policy, he 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. His book is a road map back to the historical sense we urgently need. / CONTENTS Acknowledgments introduction The World We Have Lost Part One THE HEART OF DARKNESS chapter i Arthur Koestler, the Exemplary Intellectual chapter ii The Elementary Truths of Primo Levi chapter iii The Jewish Europe of Manes Sperber chapter iv Hannah Arendt and Evil Part Two THE POLITICS OF INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENT chapter v Albert Camus: "The best man in France" chapter vi Elucubrations: The "Marxism" of Louis Althusser chapter vii Eric Hobsbawm and the Romance of Communism chapter viii Goodbye to All That? Leszek Kolakowski and the Marxist Legacy chapter ix A "Pope of Ideas"? John Paul II and the Modern World chapter x Edward Said: The Rootless Cosmopolitan Part Three LOST IN TRANSITION: PLACES AND MEMORIES chapter xi The Catastrophe: The Fall of France, 1940 chapter xii A la recherche du temps perdu: France and Its Pasts chapter xiii The Gnome in the Garden: Tony Blair and Britain s "Heritage" chapter xiv The Stateless State: Why Belgium Matters chapter xv Romania between History and Europe chapter xvi Dark Victory: Israel s Six-Day War chapter xvii The Country That Wouldn t Grow Up Part Four THE AMERICAN (HALF-) CENTURY chapter xviii An American Tragedy? The Case of Whittaker Chambers chapter xix The Crisis: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Cuba chapter xx The Illusionist: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy chapter xxi Whose Story Is It? The Cold War in Retrospect chapter xxii The Silence of the Lambs: On the Strange Death of Liberal America chapter xxiii The Good Society: Europe vs. America envoi The Social Question Redivivus Publication Credits Index. ISBN 9781594201363 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 675. Artikel-Nr. 1204645

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