Multiple sources are reporting that historian, writer, and academic Tony Judt has died after a long battle with ALS. Last March, he told New York: “The meaning of our life … is only incorporated in the way other people feel about us. Once I die, my life will acquire meaning in the way they see whatever it is I did, for them, for the world, the people I’ve known.” [Mondonweiss, Christopher Hayes/Twitter, Dave Weigel/Twitter]
Updated: A statement from New York University, where Judt taught for many years, confirms that the intellectual died yesterday, at age 62, in Manhattan. [Arts Beat/NYT]
Related: The Liveliest Mind in New York [NYM]
