Reappraisals : reflections on the forgotten twentieth century /
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The Penguin Press,
2008
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Table of Contents:
- 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.