Tony Judt
Author profile
born
January 01, 1948
in London, England, The United Kingdom
died
August 06, 2010
gender
male
genre
influences
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
— published 1999 — 30 editions |
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Ill Fares the Land
— published 2010 — 18 editions |
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The Memory Chalet
— published 2010 — 12 editions |
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Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
— published 2008 — 19 editions |
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Thinking the Twentieth Century: Intellectuals and Politics in the Twentieth Century
by Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder — published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Past Imperfect
— published 1992 — 6 editions |
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The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century
— published 1998 — 4 editions |
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A Grand Illusion?: An Essay on Europe
— 6 editions |
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Marxism and the French Left: Studies on Labour and Politics in France, 1830-1981
— published 1986 — 4 editions |
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Socialism in Provence 1871-1914: A Study in the Origins of the Modern French Left
— published 1979 — 3 editions |
“Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine.”
― Tony Judt, The Memory Chalet
― Tony Judt, The Memory Chalet
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of our sense of collective purpose. We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth. We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: Is it good Is it fair Is it just Is it right Will it help bring about a better society or a better world Those used to be the political questions even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.
The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears “natural” today dates from the 1980s: the obsession with wealth creation the cult of privatization and the private sector the growing disparities of rich and poor. And above all the rhetoric that accompanies these: uncritical admiration for unfettered markets disdain for the public sector the delusion of endless growth.
We cannot go on living like this. The little crash of 2008 was a reminder that unregulated capitalism is its own worst enemy: sooner or later it must fall prey to its own excesses and turn again to the state for rescue. But if we do no more than pick up the pieces and carry on as before we can look forward to greater upheavals in years to come.”
― Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land
The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears “natural” today dates from the 1980s: the obsession with wealth creation the cult of privatization and the private sector the growing disparities of rich and poor. And above all the rhetoric that accompanies these: uncritical admiration for unfettered markets disdain for the public sector the delusion of endless growth.
We cannot go on living like this. The little crash of 2008 was a reminder that unregulated capitalism is its own worst enemy: sooner or later it must fall prey to its own excesses and turn again to the state for rescue. But if we do no more than pick up the pieces and carry on as before we can look forward to greater upheavals in years to come.”
― Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land
“We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.”
― Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land
― Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land
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