Judt, Tony, Timothy Snyder.  Thinking the Twentieth Century. Penguin Books, 2013.  (909.82 JUD)

One of our most brilliant historians, Tony Judt brings the past century vividly to life in this unprecedented and original history. Structured as a series of intimate conversations between Judt and his friend and fellow historian Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century presents the triumphs and the failures of the twentieth century's most prominent intellectuals and their ideas, guiding readers through the debates that defined our world. Spanning an era with unprecedented clarity and insight.

Judt revisits crucial twentieth century intellectual currents: the impact of two world wars and the Great Depression on politics and philosophy; the development of and rivalry between communist and fascist dogmas; the success of social democracy on Keynesian economics in bring liberal government, broad-based growth, and social equality to the postwar world; and the retreat from those achievement prompted by free-market fundamentalism’s attach on the activist state… Judt’s ability to distill heaps of erudition into lucid, pithy conversation, even when on a breathing apparatus, is astonishing; he’s as engaging on the religious dimensions of Marxism and Freudianism as on Obama and the Iraq War. Snyder, a historian and former student of Judt’s, contributes probing interjections that stimulate and test his mentor’s ideas.  The result is a lively, browsable, deeply satisfying meditation on recent history by a deservedly celebrated public intellectual.”

- Publishers Weekly

About the Authors

Tony Judt (1948 - 2010)

"Tony Judt was educated at King’s College, Cambridge, and the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley.  He was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University, as well as the founder and director of the Remarque Institute, dedicated to creating an ongoing conversation between Europe and America.
The author or editor of fourteen books, Professor Judt was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, The New York Times, and many journals across Europe and the United States.  Professor Judt is the author of The Memory Chalet, Ill Fares the Land, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, and Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, which was one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2005, the winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  He died in August 2010 at the age of sixty-two."

Timothy Snyder

"Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and the author of five award-winning books, most recently Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, which has won eight prizes and been translated into twenty-four languages. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut."

- from Penguin Books

 Other books by Tony Judt, available in the Library

When the facts change: essays 1995-2010. William Heinemann, 2015.     (907.2 JUD)

Ill fares the land: a treatise on our present discontents. Penguin, 2011.     (909.83 JUD)

Postwar: a history of Europe since 1945. Pimlico, 2007.     (940.55 JUD)

Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914: a study in the origins of the modern French left. Cambridge University Press, 1979.    (335.009449 JUD)

Η δόξα των σιδηροδρόμων. Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2013.    (303.4832 JUD)

Τα δεινά που μαστίζουν τη χώρα: πραγματεία για τις σημερινές μας δυσκολίες. Εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρεια, 2012.    (909.83 JUD)

Η Ευρώπη μετά τον πόλεμο: (postwar). Εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρεια, 2012.      (940.55 JUD)

Critiques on "Thinking the Twentieth Century"

Θανάσης Γιαλκέτσης, Η εποχή της λήθης, "Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών". 13.1.2018

Γιώργος Καράμπελας, Αποχαιρετισμός στον "αιώνα των διανοουμένων", Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών", 25.11.2017

Μάρκος Καρασαρίνης, Ο ακέραιος στοχαστής του 20ου αιώνα, "Το Βήμα" / "Βιβλία", 8.10.2017

Γιώργος Σιακαντάρης, Ένας υποστηρικτής της "κοινοτυπίας του καλού", "Τα Νέα" / "Βιβλιοδρόμιο", 7.10.2017

Γιάννης Μπασκόζος, Τόνυ Τζαντ: Τα πράγματα που είναι κάτω από τη μύτη μας, www.oanagnostis.gr, 7.10.2017

Κώστας Καλφόπουλος, Η πνευματική βιογραφία ενός πολιτικού διανοουμένου, "Η Καθημερινή"/ "Τέχνες και Γράμματα", 24.9.2017

Neal Ascherson, Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt – Review, “The Guardian”, 2.2.2012

Michael Petrou, Review: Thinking the Twentieth Century. “Maclean’s”, 24.3.2012

What we’re reading: Tony Judt, Joan Didion, Hilary Mantel, and more. “The New Yorker”, 16.5.2012

Joanna Bourke, Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tondy Judt with Timothy Snyder: review. “The Telegraph”, 6.3.2012

Francis Fukuyama, Tony Judt reviews his life’s journey, “The New York Times”, 3.2.2012

Interesting webpages and video

http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/judt-tony/ (Άρθρα του Judt στο “The New York review of books”)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/books/08judt.html?pagewanted=all (O William Grimes γράφει για τη ζωή και το έργο του Tony Judt στο “The New York Times”)

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/tony-judt-interview (Η τελευταία συνέντευξη του Tony Judt στον Peter Juke)

http://www.azquotes.com/author/7651-Tony_Judt (Αποφθέγματα του Tony Judt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnwTKnDfHZg (O Tony Judt μιλάει για την Ευρώπη μετά τον Β’ Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο)

https://charlierose.com/videos/10278 (O Tony Judt σε ζωντανή συνέντευξη στον Charlie Rose)