When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594206007 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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HARD THINKING ESSAYS BY ONE OF OUR GREATEST VOICES OF CONSCIENCE When Tony Judt (best known for his Postwar: A History of Europe Since 19HARD THINKING ESSAYS BY ONE OF OUR GREATEST VOICES OF CONSCIENCE David Keymer When Tony Judt (best known for his Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, 2005) died in 2010, this country lost one of its clearest voices of conscience. He was only 62, struck down by ALS. He spent the last few years of his life confined in a wheelchair, virtually immobile –people read him texts, then he thought through his argument inside his head and dictated it back to them. I suspect Ill Fares the Land and The Memory Chalet, both published in 2010 were composed that way. Certainly his book with Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century (2012) was: a series of conversations between two peers who shared a comm. 5, 2005) died in 2010, this country lost one of its clearest voices of conscience. He was only 62, struck down by ALS. He spent the last few years of his life confined in a wheelchair, virtually immobile –people read him texts, then he thought through his argument inside his head and dictated it back to them. I suspect Ill Fares the Land and The Memory Chalet, both published in 2010 were composed that way. Certainly his book with Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century (2012) was: a series of conversations between two peers who shared a comm. Robert Moore said A solid collection of essays by one of the finest public intellectuals of the Twenty-First Century. Tony Judt's death hit me very hard, partly because I had only recently discovered his work and partly because he died of the same thing my grandfather died, ALS. I had just read ILL FARES THE LAND and POSTWAR: A HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE 19A solid collection of essays by one of the finest public intellectuals of the Twenty-First Century Robert Moore Tony Judt's death hit me very hard, partly because I had only recently discovered his work and partly because he died of the same thing my grandfather died, ALS. I had just read ILL FARES THE LAND and POSTWAR: A HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE 1945. I subsequently read the book-length collaborative interview he did with Timothy Snyder after he was physically unable to write, THINKING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. The tragedy of his death was that he had just hit his full stride as a writer and was writing truly superb books that summarized the significance of huge swathes of twentieth century life. He was a man of the left, though not an un. 5. I subsequently read the book-length collaborative interview he did with Timothy Snyder after he was physically unable to write, THINKING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. The tragedy of his death was that he had just hit his full stride as a writer and was writing truly superb books that summarized the significance of huge swathes of twentieth century life. He was a man of the left, though not an un. Judt's judgements Before he died young, age 62, Judt wrote 1Judt's judgements Richard E. Hayes Before he died young, age 62, Judt wrote 14 books and 190 articles (listed at the back of this book). His widow Jennifer Homans has done a great service to edit this collection, essential reading for those who want to understand what has happened in the world in recent decades. He inspires trust with his erudition and freedom from ideological cant. A central group of essays on Jews and Israel include one not before published. In it (2009) he says Israel must acknowledge Palestinians' loss and suffering, must negotiate with Hamas, the "Greater Israel" project is doomed, a two-state agreement must be made, Jerusalem must be an . books and 190 articles (listed at the back of this book). His widow Jennifer Homans has done a great service to edit this collection, essential reading for those who want to understand what has happened in the world in recent decades. He inspires trust with his erudition and freedom from ideological cant. A central group of essays on Jews and Israel include one not before published. In it (2009) he says Israel must acknowledge Palestinians' loss and suffering, must negotiate with Hamas, the "Greater Israel" project is doomed, a two-state agreement must be made, Jerusalem must be an
He was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University and the director of the Remarque Institute, which he founded in 1995. She holds a Ph.D. Tony Judt was educated at King’s College, Cambridge, and l’École Normale Supérieure, Par
No wonder this book, and Judt’s assumption of the role of political critic after the Cold War, remain so relevant.” . Mark Mazower, Financial Times: “Tony Judt was a historian whose journalism includes some of the finest things he wrote In an era of growing anti-intellectualism, his essays remind us of what we gain when we stick fast to high ethical and intellectual standards, and what is lost when we let them slip.”Samuel Moyn, The New York Times Book Review: “Scintillating journalism This collection is
Those crucial pieces are published here in book form for the first time, including an essay, never previously published, called “What Is to Be Done?” These pieces are suffused with a deep compassion for the Israeli dilemma, a compassion that instilled in Judt a sense of responsibility to speak out and try to find a better path, away from what he saw as a road to ruin.When the Facts Change also contains Judt’s homages to the culture heroes who were some of his greatest inspirations: Amos Elon, François Furet, Leszek Kolakowski, and perhaps above all Albert Camus, who never accepted the complacent view that the problem of evil couldn't lie within us as well as outside us. In an age in which the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, the historian Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing together history and current events, Europe and America, what was and what is with what should be. His essays on Israel ignited a firestorm debate for their forthright criticisms of Israeli government polices relating to the Palestinians and the occupied territories. He was a historian of the twentieth century a