Reappraisals : reflections on the forgotten twentieth century /: reflections on the forgotten twentieth century. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tony Judt.
• Other Names: Judt, Tony
• Contents: Introduction. The world we have lost -- pt. 1. The heart of darkness -- ch. 1. Arthur Koestler, the exemplary intellectual -- ch. 2. The elementary truths of Primo Levi -- ch. 3. The Jewish Europe of Manès Sperber -- ch. 4. Hannah Arendt and evil -- pt. 2. The politics of intellectual engagement -- ch. 5. Albert Camus : "the best man in France" -- ch. 6. Elucubrations : the "Marxism" of Louis Althusser -- ch. 7. Eric Hobsbawm and the romance of communism -- ch. 8. Goodbye to all that? : Leszek Kołakowski and the Marxist legacy -- ch. 9. A "pope of ideas"? : Pope John Paul II and the modern world -- ch. 10. Edward Said : the rootless cosmopolitan -- pt. 3. Lost in transition : places and memories -- ch. 11. The catastrophe : the fall of France, 1940 -- ch. 12. À la recherche du temps perdu : France and its pasts -- ch. 13. The gnome in the garden : Tony Blair and Britain's "heritage" -- ch. 14. The stateless state : why Belgium matters -- ch. 15. Romania between history and Europe -- ch. 16. Dark victory : Israel's six-day war -- ch. 17. The country that wouldn't grow up -- pt. 4. The American (half- ) century -- ch. 18. An American tragedy? : the case of Whittaker Chambers -- ch. 19. The crisis : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Cuba -- ch. 20. The illusionist : Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy -- ch. 21. Whose story is it? : the Cold War in retrospect -- ch. 22. The silence of the lambs : on the strange death of liberal America -- ch. 23. The good society : Europe vs. America -- Envoi. The social question redivivus.
• Publisher Details: London : Vintage
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 909.82; History, Modern -- 20th century; Twentieth century; History, Modern; Twentieth century; Weltgeschichte; Aufsatzsammlung; Electronic books; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781407006659; 1407006657
• Related ISBNs: 9780099532330; 0099532336
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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