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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 centurys 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. Read more...
Abstract: 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 centurys 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

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A LSO BY T ONY J UDT

The Memory Chalet

Ill Fares the Land

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

The Politics of Retribution in Europe (edited with Jan Gross and Istvn Dek)

The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century

Language, Nation and State: Identity Politics in a Multilingual Age (edited with Denis Lacorne)

A Grand Illusion?: An Essay on Europe

Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 19441956

Marxism and the French Left: Studies on Labor and Politics in France 19301982

Resistance and Revolution in Mediterranean Europe 19391948 (editor)

Socialism in Provence 18711914: A Study in the Origins of the Modern French Left

La reconstruction du Parti Socialiste 19211926

A LSO BY T IMOTHY S NYDER

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke

Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artists Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine

The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 15691999

The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in North America and Europe (edited with Peter Andreas)

Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (18721905)

THINKING

THE

TWENTIETH CENTURY

TONY JUDT

with Timothy Snyder

THE PENGUIN PRESS | NEW YORK | 2012

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First published in 2012 by The Penguin Press,

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Copyright The Estate of Tony Judt, 2012

Introduction copyright Timothy Snyder, 2012

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA

Judt, Tony.

Thinking the twentieth century / Tony Judt, with Timothy Snyder.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-101-55987-1

1. Judt, TonyInterviews. 2. Judt, TonyPolitical and social views. 3. Political sciencePhilosophyHistory20th century. 4. HistoryPhilosophyHistory20th century. I. Snyder, Timothy. II. Title. III. Title: Thinking the 20th century.

JC257.J83J8 2012

320.092dc23

2011031473

DESIGNED BY AMANDA DEWEY

No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the authors rights. Purchase only authorized editions.

CONTENTS FOREWORD T his book is history biography and ethical treatise It is - photo 1

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

T his book is history, biography and ethical treatise.

It is a history of modern political ideas in Europe and the United States. Its subjects are power and justice, as understood by liberal, socialist, communist, nationalist and fascist intellectuals from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first century. It is also the intellectual biography of the historian and essayist Tony Judt, born in London in the middle of the twentieth century, just after the cataclysm of the Second World War and the Holocaust, and just as communists were securing power in Eastern Europe. Finally, it is a contemplation of the limitations (and capacity for renewal) of political ideas, and of the moral failures (and duties) of intellectuals in politics.

To my mind, Tony Judt is the only person capable of writing such a broad treatment of the politics of ideas. As of 2008, Tony was the author of intense and polemical studies of French history, essays on intellectuals and their engagement, and a magnificent history of Europe since 1945, entitled Postwar. He had allowed his gifts for moralization and for historiography to find distinct outlets in brief reviews and longer scholarly studies, and had brought both forms very close to perfection. This book arose, however, because at a certain point that November I understood that Tony would be incapable of any further writing at all, at least in the conventional sense. I proposed to Tony that we write a book together the day after I realized that he could no longer use his hands. Tony had been stricken with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a degenerative neurological disorder that brings progressive paralysis and certain and usually rapid death.

This book takes the form of a long conversation between Tony and myself. On Thursdays during the winter, spring and summer of 2009, I took the 8:50 train from New Haven to New Yorks Grand Central Station, then the subway downtown to the neighborhood where Tony lived with his wife, Jennifer Homans, and their sons, Daniel and Nick. Our meetings were scheduled for eleven in the morning; usually I had about ten minutes in a caf to collect my thoughts about the days subject and make a few notes. I washed my hands in very hot water in the caf and then again in Tonys apartment; Tony suffered terribly from colds in his condition, and I wanted to be able to grasp his hand.

When we began our conversation in January 2009, Tony was still walking. He could not turn the knob to open the door to his apartment, but he could stand behind it and greet me. Soon he was welcoming me from an armchair in the sitting room. By spring his nose and much of his head were covered by a mechanical breathing apparatus, doing the work that his lungs no longer could. In summer we met in his study, surrounded by books, Tony looking down at me from an imposing electric wheelchair. Sometimes I would work its controls, since of course Tony could not. By now Tony was largely unable to move his body at all, save his head, eyes and vocal chords. For the purposes of this book, that was enough.

To watch the course of this destructive illness was a great sadness, especially in moments of rapid decline. In April 2009, having seen Tony lose the use of his legs and then his lungs in a matter of weeks, I was convinced (as were, I had the impression, his doctors) that he had no more than a few weeks to live. I was and am thus all the more grateful to Jenny and the boys for sharing Tony with me during such a time. But the conversation was also a great source of intellectual sustenance, bringing the pleasure of concentration, the harmony of communication and the gratification of good work achieved. Attending to the subjects at hand, and keeping pace with Tonys mind, was an absorbing labor, and also a happy one.

I am a historian of Eastern Europe, where the spoken book enjoys a proud tradition. The most famous example of the genre is the Czech writer Karel Capeks series of interviews with Tom Masaryk, the philosopher-president of interwar Czechoslovakia. This happens to be the first book that Tony read in Czech from cover to cover. Perhaps the best spoken book is

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