Frasi di Tony Judt

Tony Judt è stato uno storico e accademico britannico, residente negli Stati Uniti.

Era specializzato in storia europea. Ha ricoperto il ruolo di Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies alla New York University dove ha diretto l'Erich Maria Remarque Institute.

È stato un collaboratore abituale della New York Review of Books. Nel 1996 è stato eletto membro della American Academy of Arts and Sciences, e dal 2007 era membro corrispondente della British Academy. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Gennaio 1948 – 6. Agosto 2010   •   Altri nomi Тони Джъд, 토니 젓
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Tony Judt: Frasi in inglese

“Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within.”

Ill Fares the Land (2010), Ch. 1 : The Way We Live Now
Contesto: Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within. The impact of material differences takes a while to show up: but in due course competition for status and goods increases; people feel a growing sense of superiority (or inferiority) based on their possessions; prejudice towards those on the lower ranks of the social ladder hardens; crime spikes and the pathologies of social disadvantage become ever more marked. The legacy of unregulated wealth creation is bitter indeed.

“We face today two practical dilemmas. The first can be succinctly described as the return of the ‘social question’. For Victorian reformers—or American activists of the pre-1914 age of reform—the challenge posed by the social question of their time was straightforward: how was a liberal society to respond to the poverty, overcrowding, dirt, malnutrition and ill health of the new industrial cities? How were the working masses to be brought into the community—as voters, as citizens, as participants—without upheaval, protest and even revolution? What should be done to alleviate the suffering and injustices to which the urban working masses were now exposed and how was the ruling elite of the day to be brought to see the need for change?
The history of the 20th century West is in large measure the history of efforts to answer these questions. The responses proved spectacularly successful: not only was revolution avoided but the industrial proletariat was integrated to a remarkable degree. Only in countries where any liberal reform was prevented by authoritarian rulers did the social question rephrase itself as a political challenge, typically ending in violent confrontation. In the middle of the 19th century, sharp-eyed observers like Karl Marx had taken it for granted that the only way the inequities of industrial capitalism could be overcome was by revolution. The idea that they could be dissolved peacefully into New Deals, Great Societies and welfare states simply never would have occurred to him.”

Ill Fares the Land (2010), Ch. 5 : What Is to be Done?

“If the era of political irresponsibility in France lasted from 1918 to 1958, the age of moral irresponsibility may be said to have begun in the mid-thirties and endured for the best part of four decades.”

Introduction: The Misjudgment of Paris
The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century (1998)

“Sixty years after Hitler's death, his war and its consequences are entering history. Postwar in Europe lasted a very long time, but it is finally coming to a close.”

Tony Judt libro Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Introduction
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2005)

“I am, I discover in late middle age, a work in progress.”

quoted in Samuel Moyn, "Intellectuals, Reason, and History: In Memory of Tony Judt", H-France Salon (2012)

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