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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 Judt's first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. Some of Judt'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 author's own life. Now, in When the Facts Change, Tony Judt's widow and fellow historian, Jennifer Homans, has found the frame, gathering together important essays from the span of Judt's career that chronicle both the evolution of his thought and the remarkable consistency of his passionate engagement and intellectual elan. Whether the subject is the scholarly poverty of the new social history, the willful blindness of French collective memory about what happened to the country's Jews during World War II, or the moral challenge to Israel of the so-called Palestinian problem, the majesty of Tony Judt'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.

Texty, ktoré tvoria túto útlu knižku, som pôvodne nemienil publikovať. Začal som ich písať pre vlastné potešenie - nahovoril ma Timothy Garton Ash, keď zbadal, že moja myseľ sa čoraz viac obracia dovnútra. Neviem, či som vôbec tušil, do čoho sa púšťam a Timovi som vďačný za dôveru a podporu, s akou prijal moje prvé písačky. Keď som mal asi polovicu týchto fejtónov hotovú, ukázal som zopár z nich mojim agentom z Wylie Agency a Robertovi Silversovi z New York Review of Books. Ich nadšená reakcia mi dodala odvahu. Súčasne však vyvolala aj etickú otázku. Keďže som texty nepísal s úmyslom publikovať ich, nepodrobil som ich internej redakčnej úprave alebo, presnejšie povedané, autocenzúre. Tony Judt Penzión spomienok veľkého historika 20. storočia Tonyho Judta sú memoáre - jediné svojho druhu. V každej eseji dominuje jeden z detailov jeho osobnej skúsenosti, zasadený do rámu histórie. Judtova mladistvá láska k trase londýnskeho autobusu sa stáva úvahou o verejnom občianstve. Jedlá aj vlaky voňajú životom, ako nás vodí povojnovým Lodýnom svojho detstva, Parížom, Prahou či východným New Yorkom, kde si našiel domov. Tony Judt vnáša do všetkého svoju priezračnú morálku a svoj humor – od rýchlych áut, cez pivo, politický radikalizmus až po ničivú chorobu, ktorá mu napokon vzala život. Kniha, ktorá vznikla, keď už bol Tony Judt ochrnutý a nemohol fyzicky písať, si našla podobu v usporiadaní izieb švajčiarskeho horského hotela, ktoré mu ostalo v hlave: toho teplého úkrytu uprostred tmy, čo sa okolo neho hromadila. Úvod k slovenskému vydaniu napísal Judtov obdivovateľ Martin M. Šimečka, ktorý bol pred rokmi na niekoľko dní v oáze uprostred močiarov štátu Georgia jeho hosťom.

"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th century thought." ("Los Angeles Times") 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, "Thinking the Twentieth Century" is a tour de force: a masterful analysis of the life of the mind and an unforgettable guide to leading the mindful life.

The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, "Thinking the Twentieth Century" unites the conflicted intellectual history of an epoch into a soaring narrative. The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ideas - a time when, for good and for ill, the thoughts of the few reigned over the lives of the many. Judt presents the triumphs and the failures of prominent intellectuals, adeptly explaining both their ideas and the risks of their political commitments. Spanning an era with unprecedented clarity and insight, "Thinking the Twentieth Century" is a tour de force, a classic study of modern thought by one of the century's most incisive thinkers. The exceptional nature of this work is evident in its very structure - a series of intimate conversations between Judt and his friend and fellow historian Timothy Snyder, grounded in the texts of the time and focused by the intensity of their vision. Judt's astounding eloquence and range are on display here as never before. Traversing the complexities of modern life with ease, he and Snyder revive both thoughts and thinkers, guiding us through the debates that made our world. As forgotten ideas are revisited and fashionable trends scrutinized, the shape of a century emerges. Judt and Snyder draw us deep into their analysis, making us feel that we too are part of the conversation. We become aware of the obligations of the present to the past, and the force of historical perspective and moral considerations in the critique and reform of society, then and now. In restoring and indeed exemplifying the best of intellectual life in the twentieth century, "Thinking the Twentieth Century" opens pathways to a moral life for the twenty-first. This is a book about the past, but it is also an argument for the kind of future we should strive for: "Thinking the Twentieth Century" is about the life of the mind - and the mindful life.

Vstoupili jsme do věku nejistoty - hospodářské, sociální a politické. Krize, která propukla v roce 2008, nám připomněla, že neregulovaný kapitalismus je svým největším nepřítelem. Je nevyhnutelné, že se dříve či později stane obětí svých vlastních ex cesů a bude znovu žádat stát o pomoc. Pokud se ale jen otřepeme a budeme pokračovat stejně jako doposud, můžeme v příštích letech očekávat mohutnější otřesy.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith. Something has gone profoundly amiss in our public affairs over the past thirty years. In the West, we are wealthy and secure enough to allow ou rselves to drift very far off course before anything has to be done. But we have forgotten how to think about the life we live together: its goals and purposes. Not only are we post-ideological; we have become post-ethical. When we ask ourselves whet her a particular policy objective should be pursued - universal healthcare or investment in public transportation - we know only how to inquire about its efficiency: its profitability or cost, its impact upon growth and the National Product, its impl ications for taxation. We have lost touch with the old questions that have defined politics since the Greeks: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society? A better world? The US and UK today are more une qual - in incomes, wealth, health, education, life chances - than at any time since 1914. Is this desirable? Is it prudent? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. Until we have learned - or re-learned - how to pose them, we shall go on as before. Can we go on 'like this'? Yes. Should we? No. If we are to replace fear with confidence then we need a different story to tell, about state and society alike: a story that carries moral and political conviction. Providing that story is the purpose of this book.

The pieces collected together in Memory Chalet range from the personal to the political and professional, by turns witty, poignant and devastatingly honest and affecting. In 'Edge People', Judt movingly discusses his lack of national identity. In 'Cars', we learn on his father's obsession with being head of a 'Citreon family'. 'Work' details why he always knew he'd be a historian; 'Girls' tells the story of how he met his first wife, and 'Revolutionaries' reminisces about The Beatles, London during the swinging '60s, and what it all meant. Memory Chalet also features 'Night', Judt's harrowing account of life with motor neurone disease, which was a sensation when first published by the New York Times (and then the Guardian) in Spring 2010.

A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, selected as one of New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year Europe in 1945 was drained. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far as the borders of Russia itself. Postwar tells the rich and complex story of how we got from there to here, demystifying Europe's recent history and identity, of what the continent is and has been. 'It is hard to imagine how a better - and more readable - history of the emergence of today's Europe from the ashes of 1945 could ever be written...All in all, a real masterpiece' Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler

As Tony Judt argues persuasively in "Reappraisals", we have entered an 'age of forgetting'. Today's world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past even before we could make sense of it. We literally don't know where we came from, and the results of this burgeoning ignorance are proving calamitous, with the clear prospect of worse to come. We have lost touch with three generations of international policy debate, social thought and public-spirited social activism. We no longer know how to discuss such concepts and we have forgotten the role once played by intellectuals in debating, transmitting and defending the ideas that shaped their time.In "Reappraisals", Tony Judt resurrects key aspects of the world we have lost and reminds us how important they still are to us: now and to our hopes for the future. Judt draws provocative connections between a dazzling range of subjects, from the history of the neglect and recovery of the Holocaust and the challenge of 'evil' in understanding the European past, to the rise and fall of the state in public affairs and the displacement of history by 'heritage'. Ranging with his trademark acuity and elan from Belgium to Israel, from the memory of Marxism to the practice of foreign policy, he takes us beyond what we think we know to show us how we came to know it, and reveals how much of our history has been sacrificed in the triumph of myth-making over understanding and denial over memory. His book is a road map back to the historical sense we urgently need.

Táto kniha rozpráva príbeh Európy od konca druhej svetovej vojny. Jej dej sa teda začína v roku 1945 - v hodine nula, alebo, ako to volali Nemci - Stunde Null. Ale ako všetko ostatné v 20. storočí, aj tento príbeh sa odohráva na pozadí tridsiatich rokov vojny, ktoré sa začali v roku 1914, keď Európa nastúpila na svoju cestu ku katastrofe.

Jedinečná práce na téma moderní Evropy přehledně zachycuje jak celkový vývoj Evropy tak i protikladné zkušenosti Evropanů na Východě a na Západě. Nabízí pochopení smyslu moderní evropské historie a identity, tedy toho, jaká Evropa je a jaká byla. Časově je dovedena až po válku v Iráku a volbu papeže Benedikta XVI. V roce 1945 byla Evropa na kolenou. Značnou část evropských zemí těžce postihlo válečné ničení, masové vraždění, letecké bombardování a rozvrat. Prakticky celá východní polovina kontinentu upadla pod sovětskou nadvládu, takže jednu totalitu tam nahradila druhá. Dnes už Sovětský svaz neexistuje a enkláva demokratických států Evropské unie v současnosti sahá až k hranicím samotného Ruska. Příběh vzkříšení Evropy, která povstala z trosek příběh sestupu a pádu sovětského komunismu a vzestupu Evropského společenství a Evropské unie příběh konce evropských říší a obtížného a proměnlivého vztahu Evropy k válečné minulosti a ke dvěma supervelmocím, které jej vymezují, Rusku a Americe. Jasně a přehledně zachycuje jak celkový vývoj Evropy tak i protikladné zkušenosti Evropanů na Východě a na Západě.