Books by Tony Judt
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review 1: The Memory Chalet / Tony Judt. Very well-written memoir written by a brilliant British scholar, who is dying of ALS. Inspiring for me that he continued to think, organize, and communicate until weeks before his death. His chapters on Jewish identity and those on political cor...
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review 1: I love Tony Judt because he wrote with deep respect for the West - Europe and the United States - which provides my tradition and my culture. Yet, he does not close his eyes to the paradoxes. He wrote not only in the context of the West's wonderful, incomparable monuments of ar...
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review 1: I haven't read anything else by Tony Judt, so it was a bit strange jumping in on his recap and commentary on his academic life. I was planning to give it three stars, until I got to the last few chapters, where he discussed the need for facts in teaching (thank you!) and compared...
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review 1: A marvellous analysis of the world we live in. As in his other books, he demonstrates a laser-like ability to spot the big-picture movements, the ways in which the tectonic plates of our society have shifted. For example, the rise of a culture of self-engrossment from the ashes...
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review 1: Tony Judt takes a historian's lens to consider how politics and economics collide, and how their interaction has led to a dearth of valuing society. Judt highlights the role and the need for reconsidering social democracy to take us away from what he considers to be a destructive...
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review 1: Not sure what to make of this - it's a novella-length rant with the alternative title of "neoliberalism/privatization sucks, and why we should go back to proper social democracy". The focus is on the US and the UK with a little bit of the rest of Western Europe thrown in. One of ...
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review 1: Have you ever been the third party in a conversation? Third party because the two people talking are REALLY into the subject? Say two people are talking about speed metal and are throwing out obscure Scandinavian bands from 1983, and you're all "I know Metallica, and I have a bas...
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review 1: A very odd book for any number of reasons. The greatest cause of oddity is Timothy Snyder, who interviews Judt and edits his responses, while putting in a few words of his own, either when he has a particularly good thought, or when Judt's words need context. The oddness comes fr...