Thinking the twentieth century
By: Tony Judt, with Timothy Snyder
Contributors: Snyder, Timothy
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9781594203237
Subjects: Interviews; Philosophy; Political and social views; Political science; History
Other titles: Thinking the 20th century
Description: 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]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-404) and index.
Table of contents: title: The name remains: Jewish questioner; title: London and language: English writer; title: Familial socialism: political Marxist; title: King's and kibbutzim: Cambridge Zionist; title: Paris, California: French intellectual; title: Generation of understanding: East European liberal; title: Unities and fragments: European historian; title: Age of responsibility: American moralist; title: The banality of good: social democrat.