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HardCover Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 256 in Publisher: Penguin Press HC A gift to the next generation of - sation of citizens from one of our most celeated intellectuals As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear the withsocial contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America-the guarantee of security. stability. and fairness-is no longer guaranteed; in fact. it's no longer part of the common discourse. Tony Judt. one of our leading historians and thinkers. offers the language we need to address our common needs. rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far Right and the debunked socialism of the past. In reintroducing alternatives to the status quo. Judt invigorates our political conversation. furnishing the tools necessary to imagine a new form of governance and a better way of life.
HardCover Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 256 in Publisher: Penguin Press HC A gift to the next generation of - sation of citizens from one of our most celeated intellectuals As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear the withsocial contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America-the guarantee of security. stability. and fairness-is no longer guaranteed; in fact. it's no longer part of the common discourse. Tony Judt. one of our leading historians and thinkers. offers the language we need to address our common needs. rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far Right and the debunked socialism of the past. In reintroducing alternatives to the status quo. Judt invigorates our political conversation. furnishing the tools necessary to imagine a new form of governance and a better way of life.
Tony Judt
Born in 1948, Tony Judt was raised in the East End of London by a mother whose parents had immigrated from Russia and a Belgian father who descended from a line of Lithuanian rabbis. Judt was educated...
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