Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron might seem an unlikely combination. Blum was a fin-de-siecle aesthete who became the spiritual and political leader of the French non-Communist Left in the first half of this century. Camus, best known to millions of readers worldwide for his novels "The Stranger" and "The Plague," was a wartime Resistance figure who played a prominent part in post-1945 intellectual life in France before dying tragically young in a car crash in 1960. Aron, a contemporary of Jean-Paul Sartre in the brilliant intellectual generation of interwar France, was a political theorist, journalist, and critic of Communism who made a major contribution to the recent revival of liberal thought in contemporary France. In "The Burden of Responsibility," Tony Judt offers a distinctive and original reinterpretation of the writings and public role of these three men, arguing that they have much in common. Despite the great differences in their backgrounds, their interests, and their views, all three were men of integrity who took seriously their responsibility as public intellectuals.

作者簡介：

托尼·硃特（Tony Judt）

◎全球百大思想傢

◎奧威爾終身成就奬獲得者

◎21世紀初最頂尖的曆史學傢和思想傢

著名曆史學傢，以其對歐洲問題和歐洲思想的深入研究而聞名於世。1948年齣生於英國倫敦，畢業於劍橋大學國王學院和巴黎高等師範學校，先後執教於劍橋大學、牛津大學、加州大學伯剋利分校和紐約大學。

1995年，創辦雷馬剋研究所，專事歐洲問題研究；

1996年，當選美國文理科學院院士；

2007年，當選英國社會科學院院士；

2008年，入選美國《外交政策》評選的“全球百大思想傢”；

2009年，以其卓越的“智慧、洞察力和非凡的勇氣”獲得奧威爾終生成就奬。

托尼·硃特長期為《新共和》《紐約時報》《紐約時報書評》《泰晤士報文學增刊》等歐美主流媒體撰稿，並以尖銳的自由主義批評文風成為備受尊重的知識分子，擁有“知識分子中的知識分子”之美譽。

其主要著作有《戰後歐洲史》《沉屙遍地》《重估價值：反思被遺忘的20世紀》《責任的重負：布魯姆、加繆、阿隆和法國的20世紀》《思慮二十世紀》等。其中，《戰後歐洲史》被譽為“關於戰後歐洲曆史的最佳著作”“短時間內無法超越的偉大著作”。

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譯者簡介：

章樂天

獨立記者、獨立書評人和專欄作傢。譯作另有《開端》《思慮中國》《加繆和薩特》等。