Thinking The Twentieth Century

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.]An unprecedented and original history of intellectual life throughout the past century.Thinking the Twentieth Century is the final book of unparalleled historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt. Where Judt's masterpiece Postwar redefined the history of modern Europe by uniting the stories of its eastern and western halves, Thinking the Twentieth Century...

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Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.; MP3CD Unabridged edition (February 2, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1455126306
ISBN-13: 978-1455126309
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 7.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 5252492
Format: PDF Text djvu book

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“Only five years or so after the publication of his magnum opus, Postwar, Tony Judt was diagnosed with ALS. A few months after that, with his motor abilities deteriorating and conventional writing becoming difficult, he embarked on a several month lo...”

unites the century's conflicted intellectual history into a single soaring narrative. The twentieth century comes to life as the age of ideas--a time when, for good or for ill, the thoughts of the few reigned over the lives of the many. Judt presents the triumphs and the failures of public intellectuals, adeptly extracting the essence of their ideas and explaining the risks of their involvement in politics. Spanning the entire era and all currents of thought in a manner never previously attempted, Thinking the Twentieth Century is a triumphant tour de force that restores clarity to the classics of modern thought with the assurance and grace of a master craftsman.The exceptional nature of this work is evident in its very structure--a series of luminous conversations between Judt and his friend and fellow historian Timothy Snyder, grounded in the texts of their trade and focused by the intensity of their vision. Judt's astounding eloquence and range of reference are here on display as never before. Traversing the century's complexities with ease, he and Snyder revive both thoughts and thinkers, guiding us through the debates that made our world. As forgotten treasures are unearthed and overrated thinkers are dismantled, the shape of a century emerges. Judt and Snyder make us partners in their project as we learn the ways to think like a historian or even like a public intellectual. We begin to experience the power of historical perspective for the critique and reform of society and for the pursuit of the good and the true from day to day.In restoring, and indeed exemplifying, the best of the intellectual life of the twentieth century, Thinking the Twentieth Century charts a pathway for moral life in the twenty-first. An incredible achievement, this book is about the life of the mind--and about the mindful life.