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 · Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Judt, Tony, reader: To be announced. Click here for the lowest price! Audio CD, ,  · Tony Judt was especially astute when it came to linking history and intellectuals. One strand of thought in his collection of essays, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, is a critical engagement with several twentieth-century thinkers associated with Marxism (and sometimes anti-Marxism), including Althusser, Kołakowski, E.P. Thompson (briefly), Raymond Aron . Tony Judt resurrects key aspects of the world we have lost and reminds us how important they still are to us. He draws provocative connections between a range of subjects, from the history of the neglect and recovery of the Holocaust and the challenge of evil in understanding the European past. Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten 4/5(8).

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Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century. by Tony Judt. pp, William Heinemann, £ The period stretching from the collapse of communism up to the attack on Iraq was a time. Overview. Tony Judt is on e of today’s leading historians and thinkers. Winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize in , 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.”. In Reappraisals award-winning historian Tony Judt argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting', where we have set aside our immediate past before we could even begin to make sense of it. We have lost touch with generations of international policy debate, social thought and public-spirited social activism - and no longer even know how to discuss such concepts - and have forgotten the role once played by intellectuals in debating, transmitting and defending the ideas that shaped their time.