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 Manès 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 Kołakowski and the Marxist legacy
ch. 9. A "pope of ideas"? : Pope John Paul II and the modern world
ch. 10. Edward Said : the rootless cosmopolitan
Pt. 3. Lost in transition : places and memories
ch. 11. The catastrophe : the fall of France, 1940
ch. 12. À la recherche du temps perdu : France and its pasts
ch. 13. The gnome in the garden : Tony Blair and Britain's "heritage"
ch. 14. The stateless state : why Belgium matters
ch. 15. Romania between history and Europe
ch. 16. Dark victory : Israel's six-day war
ch. 17. The country that wouldn't grow up
Pt. 4. The American (half-) century
ch. 18. An American tragedy? : the case of Whittaker Chambers
ch. 19. The crisis : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Cuba
ch. 20. The illusionist : Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy
ch. 21. Whose story is it? : the Cold War in retrospect
ch. 22. The silence of the lambs : on the strange death of liberal America
ch. 23. The good society : Europe vs. America
Envoi. The social question redivivus.
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Reappraisals : reflections on the forgotten twentieth century by Tony Judt. ISBN 9781594201363. Published by Penguin Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
