| Description |
xvii, 414 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
The name remains: Jewish questioner -- London and language: English writer -- Familial socialism: political Marxist -- King's and kibbutzim: Cambridge Zionist -- Paris, California: French intellectual -- Generation of understanding: East European liberal -- Unities and fragments: European historian -- Age of responsibility: American moralist -- The banality of good: social democrat |
| Summary |
Thinking the Twentieth Century maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age onto a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. Tony Judt presents the triumphs and the failures of prominent intellectuals, adeptly explaining both their ideas and the risks of their political commitments.--[book jacket] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Judt, Tony -- Interviews.
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Judt, Tony -- Political and social views.
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Political science -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century.
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History -- Philosophy -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Author |
Snyder, Timothy.
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| LC no. |
2011031473 |
| ISBN |
9781594203237 |
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1594203237 |
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