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"Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright."
-The New York Times Book Review
"Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural history of the past century."
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"By turns fascinating [and] edifying . . . Judt is one of our foremost historians of Europe, an elegant writer and subtle thinker."
-Los Angeles Times
-The New York Times Book Review
"Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural history of the past century."
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"By turns fascinating [and] edifying . . . Judt is one of our foremost historians of Europe, an elegant writer and subtle thinker."
-Los Angeles Times
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Tony Judt is on e of today's leading historians and thinkers. Winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize in 2007, his previous book, Postwar, was hailed as "monumental . . . a tour de force"by Foreign Affairs, among other leading publications. In Reappraisals, he persuasively argues that we have entered an "age of forgetting." 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 to the displacement of history by heritage, Judt takes us beyond what we think we know of the past to explain how we came to know it, and shows how much of our history has been sacrificed in the triumph of myth-making over understanding and denial over memory.
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Tony Judt was a well-known historian and in this book he first of all decries the atrophying of the historical muscle after the end of the Cold War - whereby he mainly aims his criticism at his co-Americans. But not exclusively.
In the following the reader gets a number of reviews and articles to co-historians and other writers and some texts about politics in general in which he always also describes the historical and political background these books are more or less founded upon - sometimes, in his opinion, the book is on another piece of land than the historical facts.
In his criticisms of some writers - e.g. Hannah Arendt - he is really working them through. By doing this he especially concentrates on the history of Communism, Socialism, Jewishness and the global position of the United States. Herein he also shows quite clearly what he thinks to be important in 20th century history. And he may well be right in many aspects, eventhough some authors he sees as neglected - e.g. Primo Levi - are not so unknown in Europe.
His criticisms of England - especially Blair's England -, France, Romania, Israel and Belgium are quite acidic and his comments on the so-called American Century with a finalizing comparison between the USA and Europe are also not for the faint of heart - especially if they are Americans.
All of these texts have been published before and some of them have a good number of endnotes - and more importantly in my eyes some comments about readers' reactions from the first publishing.
The rants against certain politicians and historians go a bit far for my taste, so that I would give three and a half star all in all.
In the following the reader gets a number of reviews and articles to co-historians and other writers and some texts about politics in general in which he always also describes the historical and political background these books are more or less founded upon - sometimes, in his opinion, the book is on another piece of land than the historical facts.
In his criticisms of some writers - e.g. Hannah Arendt - he is really working them through. By doing this he especially concentrates on the history of Communism, Socialism, Jewishness and the global position of the United States. Herein he also shows quite clearly what he thinks to be important in 20th century history. And he may well be right in many aspects, eventhough some authors he sees as neglected - e.g. Primo Levi - are not so unknown in Europe.
His criticisms of England - especially Blair's England -, France, Romania, Israel and Belgium are quite acidic and his comments on the so-called American Century with a finalizing comparison between the USA and Europe are also not for the faint of heart - especially if they are Americans.
All of these texts have been published before and some of them have a good number of endnotes - and more importantly in my eyes some comments about readers' reactions from the first publishing.
The rants against certain politicians and historians go a bit far for my taste, so that I would give three and a half star all in all.
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Tony Judt seems to be the voice of Europe. Many historians obviously want to prove that a certain ideology is right, f.i. that capitalism is better than communism or that EU is the correct way for the countries of Europe. Judt shows us all the sophistic ambiguities of the rim of the Euro-Asian continent. And that makes the book worth buying.
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2. Juni 2008
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This is a collection of essays from the historian most famous for " Postwar" a history of Europe from 1945 to the present. Judt's earlier book was very good and explained the establishment of the European welfare state as a reaction to the Second World War. Politicians of both sides wanted to ensure that the underlying causes which led to Fascism and Communism never arose in their countries so that they tried to establish mechanisms to ensure that a decent life was available for all. One of the points Judt made was the key role of conservative and Christian democratic parties in the creation of modern Europe.
In this book he is not a historian but an essayist strongly arguing for the left. He covers a number of topics but his key message is that the end of utopian models of government does not mean a end to the role of government in society. Government still has the power to solve problems and to shape societies to so that breakdown and dislocation do not occur. He is clearly a supporter of the welfare state although his intelligence is such that any of his positions are hedged rather than dogmatic. In facing problems there are no simple answers.
Some of the essays are rather strident attacks on Israel. He appears to have some first hand experience living in Israel in his youth. His attacks are rather simple. He says that Israel is a strong modern state which keeps large numbers of Arabs living in Bantustans. It uses collective punishments and violates international law. Whilst doing these things it trumpets a ideology that it is a state facing extinction and its actions are simply in self defence. It is also the only democracy in an area in which autocracy is the norm.
All of his essays about Israel have been stridently attacked in America where support for Israel is strong. Ironically it would seem that they have been better received in Israel were there is strong debate about how the future should play out. From the point of view of a reader he is able to articulate the arguments around the issue and meld it with the historical record.
Coming from a family of Marxists he is aware of the limitations of it as an ideology and what a disaster it has been. His previous work has been some of the most articulate criticisms of modern communism and in this work he deals not only with it but with its fellow travellers.
All of the essays in the book, although previously published are first rate and readable as well. Thoroughly recommended.
In this book he is not a historian but an essayist strongly arguing for the left. He covers a number of topics but his key message is that the end of utopian models of government does not mean a end to the role of government in society. Government still has the power to solve problems and to shape societies to so that breakdown and dislocation do not occur. He is clearly a supporter of the welfare state although his intelligence is such that any of his positions are hedged rather than dogmatic. In facing problems there are no simple answers.
Some of the essays are rather strident attacks on Israel. He appears to have some first hand experience living in Israel in his youth. His attacks are rather simple. He says that Israel is a strong modern state which keeps large numbers of Arabs living in Bantustans. It uses collective punishments and violates international law. Whilst doing these things it trumpets a ideology that it is a state facing extinction and its actions are simply in self defence. It is also the only democracy in an area in which autocracy is the norm.
All of his essays about Israel have been stridently attacked in America where support for Israel is strong. Ironically it would seem that they have been better received in Israel were there is strong debate about how the future should play out. From the point of view of a reader he is able to articulate the arguments around the issue and meld it with the historical record.
Coming from a family of Marxists he is aware of the limitations of it as an ideology and what a disaster it has been. His previous work has been some of the most articulate criticisms of modern communism and in this work he deals not only with it but with its fellow travellers.
All of the essays in the book, although previously published are first rate and readable as well. Thoroughly recommended.
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Praise for 'REAPPRAISALS'
16. Juli 2008
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I give this book 5 stars, not because I agree with everything its author says but because it's such a good read. The book is comprised of essays published between 1997 - 2006. The first two sections contain a series of portraits of some of the most influential people of the 20th century; Koestler, Arendt, Camus and others. Tony Judt, who Christopher Hitchens calls a former 'kibbutznik', also writes a sympathetic piece on Edward Said. This is one of the reasons why he's not so kindly received in some quarters. Even though Said apparently didn't advocate political violence (in contrast with for example Sartre), he is sometimes referred to by his adversaries as the 'Professor of Terror'. Judt is also highly critical of modern-day Israel. This is sure-fire way to lower the ratings. We all know that you should not judge a book on your own political preferences but there you go.
These are the actual reappraisals, I suppose, and the remainder of the book reflects on Europe, the United States and Israel since WW II. In an essay called 'The Silence of the Lambs: On the Strange Death of Liberal America', Judt laments the tacit consent by leading liberals of President Bush's 'catastrophic foreign policy'. Some intellectuals even trip over each other in order to praise the war in Iraq in particular and the GWOT (Global War On Terror) in general. The Left, as represented by Tony Blair, has lost its credibility, perhaps even its raison d'être. In order to survive, it has to shoulder its responsibility for the failures of the 20th century and reassess many of its central themes. In absence of a clear vision the Left will simply stagnate and wither away. As Judt acutely observes: 'to be on the left is to be a conservative'.
I highly recommend 'Reappraisals' to anyone interested in recent history - and in the future, however gloomy it might appear.
These are the actual reappraisals, I suppose, and the remainder of the book reflects on Europe, the United States and Israel since WW II. In an essay called 'The Silence of the Lambs: On the Strange Death of Liberal America', Judt laments the tacit consent by leading liberals of President Bush's 'catastrophic foreign policy'. Some intellectuals even trip over each other in order to praise the war in Iraq in particular and the GWOT (Global War On Terror) in general. The Left, as represented by Tony Blair, has lost its credibility, perhaps even its raison d'être. In order to survive, it has to shoulder its responsibility for the failures of the 20th century and reassess many of its central themes. In absence of a clear vision the Left will simply stagnate and wither away. As Judt acutely observes: 'to be on the left is to be a conservative'.
I highly recommend 'Reappraisals' to anyone interested in recent history - and in the future, however gloomy it might appear.
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Our contemporary George Orwell?
24. August 2009
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Let me first dispense with the weakness of this book: It is a collection of 23 articles by Tony Judt that were published between 1994 and 2006 in several journals -- many in the form of expanded book reviews and the vast majority being in either "The New York Review of Books" or "The New Republic". Although Judt makes an effort to bring them all together under one tent as, to quote the sub-title, "Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century", that's a pretty lame and generally unsuccessful effort. The book has the usual weaknesses of virtually any collection of essays on wide-ranging topics published over a dozen years: there is, inevitably, a measure of disjointedness, and the stronger essays lose some of their punch and distinctiveness from having to rub shoulders with the weaker or more esoteric ones.
But this weakness is, for me, more than offset by the strengths of the book. Tony Judt is an independent, clear-headed thinker, who writes knowledgeably and lucidly on a wide range of contemporary subjects of an historical/political nature. Few -- correction, probably no one -- will agree with him on every point. His views on Israel are particularly likely to raise hackles, at least here in the U.S. (They led "The New Republic" to treat him as persona non grata.) But his opinions are well-grounded in history and well thought out. They are not, most emphatically, the received strictures of an ideologue -- which, of course, is what irritates so many who fancy themselves liberals about Judt. Then again, what George Orwell said about nationalists is equally applicable to ideologues: "If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissble."
Tony Judt is cut from the same cloth as Orwell. He does not write quite as straightforwardly, and I don't know if his empathy for the common man is as intense, but his historical knowledge is deeper and broader. I recommend REAPPRAISALS, unreservedly, to anyone who cares about the current global political landscape and (a) is uninvested, psychologically or intellectually, in any particular ideological or nationalistic perspective, or (b) is sincerely willing to have their ideological or nationalistic beliefs challenged.
But this weakness is, for me, more than offset by the strengths of the book. Tony Judt is an independent, clear-headed thinker, who writes knowledgeably and lucidly on a wide range of contemporary subjects of an historical/political nature. Few -- correction, probably no one -- will agree with him on every point. His views on Israel are particularly likely to raise hackles, at least here in the U.S. (They led "The New Republic" to treat him as persona non grata.) But his opinions are well-grounded in history and well thought out. They are not, most emphatically, the received strictures of an ideologue -- which, of course, is what irritates so many who fancy themselves liberals about Judt. Then again, what George Orwell said about nationalists is equally applicable to ideologues: "If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissble."
Tony Judt is cut from the same cloth as Orwell. He does not write quite as straightforwardly, and I don't know if his empathy for the common man is as intense, but his historical knowledge is deeper and broader. I recommend REAPPRAISALS, unreservedly, to anyone who cares about the current global political landscape and (a) is uninvested, psychologically or intellectually, in any particular ideological or nationalistic perspective, or (b) is sincerely willing to have their ideological or nationalistic beliefs challenged.
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