Very Good, A very good, clean and sound copy in burgundy cloth boards, with a very good dust jacket. Reappraisals: reflections on the forgotten twentieth century. xiv, 448 p. ; 25 cm.. The accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a comparably accelerated amnesia. The twentieth century has become "history" at an unprecedented rate. The world of 2007 is so utterly unlike that of even 1987, much less any earlier time, that we have lost touch with our immediate past even before we have begun to make sense of it. In less than a generation, the headlong advance of globalization, with the geographical shifts of emphasis and influence it brings in its wake, has altered the structures of thought that had been essentially unchanged since the European industrial revolution. Quite literally, we don't know where we came from. From the history of the neglect and recovery of the Holocaust and the challenge of "evil" in the understanding of the European past to the rise and fall of the "state" in public affairs and the displacement of history by "heritage," Judt takes us beyond what we think we know to show us how we came to know it and reveals how many aspects of our history have been sacrificed in the triumph of mythmaking over understanding, collective identity over truth, and denial over memory.--From amazon.com.. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction. The world we have lost -- Pt. 1. The heart of darkness -- ch. 1. Arthur Koestler, the exemplary intellectual -- ch. 2. The elementary truths of Primo Levi -- ch. 3. The Jewish Europe of Man?es Sperber -- ch. 4. Hannah Arendt and evil -- Pt. 2. The politics of intellectual engagement -- ch. 5. Albert Camus : "the best man in France" -- ch. 6. Elucubrations : the "Marxism" of Louis Althusser -- ch. 7. Eric Hobsbawm and the romance of communism -- ch. 8. Goodbye to all that? : Leszek Ko?akowski and the Marxist legacy -- ch. 9. A "pope of ideas"? : Pope John Paul II and the moder