We have entered an age of forgetting. Our world, we insist, is unprecedented, wholly new. The past has nothing to teach us. Drawing 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 and the displacement of history by heritage, the late historian Tony Judt takes us beyond what we think we know of the past to explain how we came to know it, showing how much of our history has been sacrificed in the triumph of myth-making over understanding and denial over memory. Reappraisals offers a much-needed road map back to the historical sense we urgently need.

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Format: TradePaperback
Author: Judt, Tony
ISBN: 9780143115052
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 8.30 x 0.98
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Year: 2009

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

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