'The Memory Chalet' is a memoir like no other. Each essay charts an experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning.
'The Memory Chalet' is a memoir like no other. Each essay charts an experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious ...
Tony Judt resurrects key aspects of the world we have lost and reminds us how important they still are to us. He draws provocative connections between a range of subjects, from the history of the neglect and recovery of the Holocaust and the challenge of evil in understanding the European past.
Tony Judt resurrects key aspects of the world we have lost and reminds us how important they still are to us. He draws provocative connections between...
An original and moving blend of intellectual history, personal reflection and passionate debate spanning many continents and generations. From fascism and communism to liberalism and social democracy, Tony Judt reflects on the ironies and paradoxes of 20th century thought and the legacy left to us today.
An original and moving blend of intellectual history, personal reflection and passionate debate spanning many continents and generations. From fascism...
Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intellectuals can ignore political pressures and demonstrate a heroic commitment to personal integrity and moral responsibility unfettered by the difficult political exigencies of their time. Through the prism of the lives of Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron, Judt examines pivotal issues in the history of contemporary French society antisemitism and the dilemma of Jewish identity, political and moral idealism in public life, the Marxist...
Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intel...
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 the topics of his essays to construct a distinctive and original interpretation of French left-wing politics over the past 150 years.
-A well-informed and persuasive reinterpretation of the old French Left that is now receding beyond recall, except for historians.---Times...
Unlike most books, which treat labor, Socialist and Communist history separately and view French Marxism as a self-contained philosophical phenomen...
Departing from the usual emphasis on an urban and industrial context for the rise of socialism, Socialism in Provence 1871-1914 offers instead a reinterpretation of the early years of Marxist socialism in France among the peasantry. By focusing on a limited period and a particular region, Judt provides an account both of the character of political behavior in the countryside and of the history of left-wing politics in France.
Departing from the usual emphasis on an urban and industrial context for the rise of socialism, Socialism in Provence 1871-1914 offers ins...
-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 failing to test their political thought against political reality.-
-John Sturrock, New York Times Book Review
-Past Imperfect is a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually volatile years 1944-1956]. Mr. Judt...does more than...
-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 suppose it is possible. It is my contention that a truly united Europe is sufficiently unlikely for it to be unwise and self-defeating to insist upon it. I am thus, I suppose, a Euro-pessimist.- --Tony Judt
-I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and...
The author's first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. In this book, his widow and fellow historian, gathers together important essays from the span of his career that chronicle both the evolution of his thought and the consistency of his passionate engagement and intellectual elan.
The author's first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. In this book, his widow and fell...
