Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Traverso, Enzo
Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Traverso, Enzo

Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise...
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Author: Enzo Traverso
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Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Traverso, Enzo

Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory

CHF 59.49
Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Traverso, Enzo

Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory

CHF 59.49
Author: Enzo Traverso
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from classical Marxism to psychoanalysis to the advent of critical theory, a culture of defeat and its emotional overlay of melancholy have characterized the leftist understanding of the political in history and in theoretical critique.

Drawing on a vast and diverse archive in theory, testimony, and image and on such thinkers as Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and others, the intellectual historian Enzo Traverso explores the varying nature of left melancholy as it has manifested in a feeling of guilt for not sufficiently challenging authority, in a fear of surrendering in disarray and resignation, in mourning the human costs of the past, and in a sense of failure for not realizing utopian aspirations. Yet hidden within this melancholic tradition are the resources for a renewed challenge to prevailing regimes of historicity, a passion that has the power to reignite the dialectic of revolutionary thought.

Author: Enzo Traverso
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 04/06/2021
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780231179430

About the Author
Enzo Traverso is Susan and Barton Winokur Professor of the Humanities at Cornell University. His books include The End of Jewish Modernity (2016); Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914-1945 (2015); The Origins of Nazi Violence (2003); and Understanding the Nazi Genocide: Marxism After Auschwitz (1999).
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