by Tony Judt · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099532330
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«Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century» is the historical essay by Tony Judt, published by Vintage in paperback (464 pages, in English).
Tony Judt reflects in this book on the «age of forgetting» and the loss of contact with the political and social thought of the twentieth century; he recovers intellectuals such as Hannah Arendt, Albert Camus, Edward Said and Henry Kissinger to show the relevance of those ideas.
The volume brings together 23 essays written between 1994 and 2006. Published in 2009, it was nominated for the Orwell Prize.
Intended for readers interested in twentieth-century European history, political essay and the role of intellectuals.
Tony Robert Judt was an English historian, author, essayist and professor who specialised in European history. Judt moved to New York and served as the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University and director of NYU's Remarque Institute. He was director of the New York Institute for the Humanities from 1993 to 1996. Judt was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2007.
