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When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010

Door Tony Judt

Categorie
Secundair
Boeknummer
#371423-XO4
Titel
When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010
Auteur
Judt, Tony
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : William Heinemann
Jaar van uitgave
2015
ISBN10
0434023086
ISBN13
9780434023080
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blind stamped black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting
A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century, spanning a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement. Edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans. Tony Judtâe(tm)s first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. Some of Judtâe(tm)s most prominent and indeed controversial essays felt outside of the scope of Reappraisals, most notably his writings on the state of Israel and its relationship to Palestine. There would be time, it was thought, to fit these essays into a larger frame. Sadly, this would not be the case, at least during the authorâe(tm)s own life. Now, in When the Facts Change, Tony Judtâ... (Lees verder)e(tm)s widow and fellow historian, Jennifer Homans, has found the frame, gathering together important essays from the span of Judtâe(tm)s career that chronicle both the evolution of his thought and the remarkable consistency of his passionate engagement and intellectual élan. Whether the subject is the scholarly poverty of the new social history, the willful blindness of French collective memory about what happened to the countryâe(tm)s Jews during World War II, or the moral challenge to Israel of the so-called Palestinian problem, the majesty of Tony Judtâe(tm)s work lies in his combination of unsparing honesty, intellectual brilliance, and ethical clarity. When the Facts Change exemplifies the utility, indeed the necessity, of minding our history and not letting cheerful fictions suffice in its place. An emphatic demonstration of the power of a great historian to connect us more deeply to the world as it was, as it is, and as it should be, it is a fitting capstone to an extraordinary body of work.
Pagina's
381
Conditie
Goed — Name on first free endpaper, tear dust jacket repaired with tape.
Prijs
€ 12,50

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