《责任的重负》内容简介：

　　《责任的重负》是托尼·朱特最富盛名的两部著作之一。

　　在这本书中，他选取了阿尔贝•加缪、莱昂•布鲁姆、雷蒙•阿隆这三位法兰西精神最优秀的代表人物，还原他们生活的年代，考察他们的言行与历史纵横嬗变之间的联系，讨论知识分子与思想史的诸多重要议题。

　　托尼•朱特认为，评价知识分子的核心词应是“责任”。这三位道路迥异却共同拥有“勇气与正直”这种道德人格的知识分子，在投入公共生活之后，将个人利益置于公共责任之下，以独立的良知发言，以一致的言行影响现实政治、纠正时代谬误，并不惜为此付出沉重的代价，才有所谓“责任的重负”。

　　他们活在一个不负责任的时代，但更重要的是，“他们经历过，并反对这个不负责任的时代”。

　　可以说，他们不单代表了现代法国的思想和政治文化中独特的、令人憬悟的一种声音，还代表了现代社会和思想中许多最优秀、最持久的价值——过去是，如今也是。

　　作者简介：

　　托尼·朱特（TonyJudt）

　　◎全球百大思想家

　　◎奥威尔终身成就奖获得者

　　◎21世纪初最顶尖的历史学家和思想家

　　著名历史学家，以其对欧洲问题和欧洲思想的深入研究而闻名于世。1948年出生于英国伦敦，毕业于剑桥大学国王学院和巴黎高等师范学校，先后执教于剑桥大学、牛津大学、加州大学伯克利分校和纽约大学。

　　1995年，创办雷马克研究所，专事欧洲问题研究；

　　1996年，当选美国文理科学院院士；

　　2007年，当选英国社会科学院院士；

　　2008年，入选美国《外交政策》评选的“全球百大思想家”；

　　2009年，以其卓越的“智慧、洞察力和非凡的勇气”获得奥威尔终生成就奖。

　　托尼·朱特长期为《新共和》《纽约时报》《纽约时报书评》《泰晤士报文学增刊》等欧美主流媒体撰稿，并以尖锐的自由主义批评文风成为备受尊重的知识分子，拥有“知识分子中的知识分子”之美誉。

　　其主要著作有《战后欧洲史》《沉疴遍地》《重估价值：反思被遗忘的20世纪》《责任的重负：布鲁姆、加缪、阿隆和法国的20世纪》《思虑二十世纪》等。其中，《战后欧洲史》被誉为“关于战后欧洲历史的最佳著作”“短时间内无法超越的伟大著作”。

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　　译者简介：

　　章乐天

　　独立记者、独立书评人和专栏作家。译作另有《开端》《思虑中国》《加缪和萨特》等。

　　

Introduction to The Burden of Responsibility:

The Burden of Responsibility is one of Tony Judt's two most famous books.

In this book, he selects three of the best representatives of the French spirit, Albert Camus, Leon Blum, and Raymond Aron, and returns to The Times in which they lived, examines the connection between their words and actions and historical changes, and discusses many important issues in the history of intellectuals and ideas.

According to Tony Judt, the key word to evaluate intellectuals is "responsibility". These three intellectuals, who have different paths but share the moral personality of "courage and integrity", have the so-called "burden of responsibility" after entering public life, putting their personal interests under public responsibility, speaking with independent conscience, influencing realpolitik with consistent words and deeds, correcting the fallacies of The Times, and even paying a heavy price for it.

They lived in an age of irresponsibility, but more importantly, "they lived through and opposed this age of irresponsibility."

It can be said that they represent not only a unique and fascinating voice in modern French thought and political culture, but also many of the best and most enduring values of modern society and thought - then and now.

About the author:

TonyJudt

◎ Top 100 Global Thinkers

◎ Winner of the Orwell Lifetime Achievement Award

The leading historians and thinkers of the early 21st century

Famous historian, known for his in-depth study of European issues and European thought. Born in 1948 in London, England, he graduated from King's College Cambridge and Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and has taught at Cambridge University, Oxford University, University of California, Berkeley and New York University.

In 1995, he founded the Remak Institute, specializing in European studies.

In 1996, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 2007, he was elected a fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences.

In 2008, he was selected as one of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy.

In 2009, he received the Orwell Lifetime Achievement Award for his "intelligence, insight and extraordinary courage".

Tony Judt has written for the New Republic, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement and other mainstream media in Europe and the United States for a long time, and has become a highly respected intellectual with his sharp liberal criticism style, and has the reputation of "intellectual's intellectual".

His major books include The History of Postwar Europe, The Deep Sickness, Revaluing: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, The Burden of Responsibility: Bloom, Camus, Aron and the Twentieth Century in France, and Thinking about the Twentieth Century. Among them, The History of Post-war Europe has been praised as "the best book on post-war European history" and "a great book that cannot be surpassed in a short time".

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About the Translator

Zhang Rakuten

Independent journalist, independent book reviewer and columnist. Other translations include "Beginning", "Thinking about China", "Camus and Sartre" and so on.