Overview
- 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]
- Variant Title
- Thinking the 20th century
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Penguin Press, 2012
- Contents
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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. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781594203237
1594203237 - Physical Description
- xvii, 414 p. ; 25 cm.
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- 2012-05-21 11:34:00
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