Reappraisals : reflections on the forgotten twentieth century / Tony Judt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the world we have lost -- Arthur Koestler, the exemplary intellectual -- The elementary truths of Primo Levi -- The Jewish Europe of Manès Sperber -- Hannah Arendt and evil -- Albert Camus : "the best man in France" -- Elucubrations : the "Marxism" of Louis Althusser -- Eric Hobsbawm and the romance of communism -- Goodbye to all that? : Leszek Kołakowski and the Marxist legacy -- A "pope of ideas"? : Pope John Paul II and the modern world -- Edward Said : the rootless cosmopolitan -- The catastrophe : the fall of France, 1940 -- À la recherche du temps perdu : France and its pasts -- The gnome in the garden : Tony Blair and Britain's "heritage" -- The stateless state : why Belgium matters -- Romania between history and Europe -- Dark victory : Israel's six-day war -- The country that wouldn't grow up -- An American tragedy? : the case of Whittaker Chambers -- The crisis : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Cuba -- The illusionist : Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy -- Whose story is it? : the Cold War in retrospect -- The silence of the lambs : on the strange death of liberal America -- The good society : Europe vs. America -- Envoi : the social question redivivus.