{"product_id":"reappraisals-reflections-on-the-forgotten-twentieth-century","title":"Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003eSecond Hand (Hardcover)\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcellent Condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom one of our greatest historians and public intellectuals, reflections on a twentieth century that is turning into ancient history - when it's not being displaced by myth or forgotten entirely, with unprecedented speed and at great cost.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a comparably accelerated amnesia. The world of 2007 is so utterly unlike that of even 1987, much less any earlier time. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe results have proved calamitous thus far, with the prospect of far worse. We have lost touch with a century of social thought and socially motivated social activism. We no longer know how to discuss such concepts and have forgotten the role once played by intellectuals in debating, transmitting, and defending the ideas that shaped their time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Reappraisals, Tony Judt resurrects the key aspects of the world we have lost in order to remind us how important they still are to us now and to our hopes for the future. He \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etakes 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReappraisals is a road map back to the historical sense we so vitally need.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tony Judt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43017748250793,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/products\/judt.jpg?v=1681015997","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/reappraisals-reflections-on-the-forgotten-twentieth-century","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}