Reappraisals

Resumen del libro

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 concepts 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 the history of the neglect and recovery of the Holocaust and the challenge of evil' in understanding the European past, to the rise and fall of the state in public affairs and 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 to show us how we came to know it, and reveals 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Tony Judt x{0026}lt;/B (Londres, 1948-Nueva York, 2010) realizó sus estudios en el King's College de Cambridge y en la École Normale Supérieure de París. Impartió clases en las universidades de Cambridge, Oxford, Berkeley y Nueva York, y en esta última ocupó la cátedra de Estudios Europeos, que él mismo fundó en 1995, y fue director del Remarque Institute.Entre sus publicaciones cabe destacar x{0026}lt;I El peso de la responsabilidadx{0026}lt;/I (Taurus, 2014), x{0026}lt;I ¿Una gran ilusión?x{0026}lt;/I (Taurus, 2013), x{0026}lt;I Pensar el siglo XXx{0026}lt;/I (Taurus, 2012), x{0026}lt;I El refugio de la memoriax{0026}lt;/I (Taurus, 2011), x{0026}lt;I Algo va malx{0026}lt;/I (Taurus, 2010), x{0026}lt;I Sobre el olvidado siglo XX x{0026}lt;/I (Taurus, 2008), x{0026}lt;I Pasado imperfectox{0026}lt;/I (Taurus, 2007), x{0026}lt;I Postguerrax{0026}lt;/I (Taurus, 2006), considerado uno de los diez mejores libros de 2005 por la x{0026}lt;I New York Times Book Reviewx{0026}lt;/I , galardonadocon el Premio Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross y finalista del premio Pulitzer, y x{0026}lt;I Cuando los hechos cambianx{0026}lt;/I (Taurus, 2015). Judt colaboró en diferentes medios de Europa y Estados Unidos, como x{0026}lt;I The New York Review of Booksx{0026}lt;/I , el x{0026}lt;I Times Literary Supplementx{0026}lt;/I o x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I . En 2007 recibió el Premio Hannah Arendt, y en 2009 el Orwell Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Falleció en agosto de 2010 a causa de una enfermedad degenerativa.x{0026}lt;/P