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When the Facts Change - Essays, 1995-2010 (Paperback)
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When the Facts Change - Essays, 1995-2010 (Paperback)
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List price R605
Loot Price R547
Discovery Miles 5 470
You Save R58 (10%)
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"When the facts change, I change my mind-what do you do, sir?" A
great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and
forthright collection of essays spanning a career of extraordinary
intellectual engagement "In an era of growing anti-intellectualism,
[Judt's] essays remind us of what we gain when we stick fast to
high ethical and intellectual standards, and what is lost when we
let them slip." -Mark Mazower, Financial Times "Scintillating
journalism." -Samuel Moyn, The New York Times Book Review In an age
in which there has been an erosion of fact-based journalism and the
lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely
lamented, Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing
together history and current events, Europe and America, the world
as it was and as it is with what it should be. In When the Facts
Change, Tony Judt's widow and fellow historian Jennifer Homans has
assembled an essential collection of Judt's most important and
influential pieces written in the last fifteen years of his life,
when he found his voice in the public sphere. These seminal essays
reflect the full range of Judt's concerns, including Europe as an
idea and in reality; Israel, the Holocaust, and the Jews; American
hyperpower and the world after 9/11; and issues of social inclusion
and social justice in a time of increasing inequality. Judt
believed his real job was not to say what wasn't but to say what
was--to tell a convincing, clear story from available evidence, and
to do it with a view of what was right and what was just. This was
not only a duty, but a moral responsiblity for Judt and When the
Facts Change is a testament to his legacy. Judt's book, Ill Fares
the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by
bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water
Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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