Enzo Traverso

Revolution

An Intellectual History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutions

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781839763595
• ISBN-10: 1839763590
• Artikelnr.: 68594367

Autorenporträt

Enzo Traverso is the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. His publications, all translated into various languages, include more than ten authored and edited books, including The Marxists and the Jewish Question, The Jews and Germany, Understanding the Nazi Genocide, The Origins of Nazi Violence, Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914–1945 and Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Locomotives of History
The Railway Age
Secularization and Temporalization
Conceptualizing Revolution
Energy and Labour Power
‘Máquinas Locas’
Armoured Trains
The End of a Myth
Chapter 2. Revolutionary Bodies
Insurgent Bodies
Animalized Bodies
The People’s Two Bodies
Sovereign Body
Immortality
Regeneration
Liberated Bodies
Productive Bodies
Chapter 3. Concepts, Symbols, Realms of Memory
Fixing a Paradigm
Counterrevolution
Katechon
Iconoclasm
Symbols
Thought-Images: ‘Man at the Crossroads’
Chapter 4. The Revolutionary Intellectual, 1848–1945
Historical Boundaries
National Contexts
Physiognomies
Bohemians and Déclassés
Maps I: West
Maps II: Colonial World
Conscious Pariahs
Conservative Anti-Intellectualism
‘Fellow Travellers’
Thomas Mann’s Allegories
Comintern Intellectuals
Conclusion: An Ideal-Type
Tables
Chapter 5. Between Freedom and Liberation
Genealogies
Representations
Ontology
Foucault, Arendt and Fanon
Freedom, Bread and Roses
Liberation of Time
Benjamin’s Messianic Time
Chapter 6. Historicizing Communism
Periodization
Faces of Communism
Revolution
Regime
Anticolonialism
Social-Democratic Communism
The Heteronyms of Ilio Barontini
Epilogue
Illustration Credits
Index

Rezensionen

Offering one of the most unsentimental yet non-reactionary meditations on revolution ever written, Traverso comes not to bury or praise the earthly drive to "take heaven by storm" but to understand it anew. Enriched by a lifelong study of historiography and politics, immense historical knowledge, theoretical polyamory, and a compelling artistic eye, this book also features splendid humility in exploring its slippery, complex and important subject. For those who long to craft a different order of things, Traverso's account is essential. For those who want to ponder what spirits revolutions or makes shipwrecks of them, this rare work roams the globe and the library, reflecting on Phnom Penh and Havana, not only Paris and Moscow, and thinking with Weber, Arendt, Fanon and Constant, not only Trotsky, Lenin and Mao. Wendy Brown, author of In the Ruins of Neoliberalism