Tony Judt in an interview with Timothy Snyder
Tony Judt is one of the world's most interesting thinkers of the last half century. Few have thought so deeply and inspiringly about the issues of democracy, totalitarian regimes, the Holocaust, or the historical role of public intellectuals. In conversation with his friend and colleague Timothy Snyder, he traces the history of modern political ideas and conceptions of government and justice as understood by liberal, socialist, communist, nationalist, and fascist intellectuals from the late 19th to the early 21st century. He reflects on the duties of intellectuals in politics and their moral failures. The book chronicles the life of historian Tony Judt and is also a fascinating dialogue about the search for truth and the possibilities of social renewal.
Tony Judt (1948-2010), a leading British historian, was a professor at New York University. After 1989 he was intensively involved in the changes in Eastern Europe. His monumental work Postwar Europe (2017), his memoir Penzion vzpomínek (2016), and his essays Fake Ideas, Foreign Blood (2018), The Forgotten 20th Century (2019) and The Great Illusion? (2020).
Timothy Snyder (1969), American historian and political scientist, professor at Yale University. He focuses on the history of Central and Eastern Europe. Czech publications include. his books Bloodlands (2013), Black Earth (2015), Tyranny (2017, illustrated edition 2021) and Sick America (2020).
