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Left-wing melancholia : Marxism, history, and memory / Enzo Traverso.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Traverso, Enzo, author.
- Series:
- New directions in critical theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communism--History.
- Communism.
- History.
- Memory.
- Melancholy (Philosophy).
- History--Philosophy.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- 1 The Culture of Defeat 22
- Shipwreck with Spectator 22
- The Vanquished Left 25
- Dialectic of Defeat 31
- Left-Wing Melancholy 38
- The Antinomies of Walter Benjamin 45
- The Melancholy Wager 48
- 2 Marxism and Memory 54
- Enter Memory, Exit Marx 54
- Memory of the Future 58
- Myth and Remembrance 73
- Futures' Past 74
- 3 Melancholy Images 85
- Film and History 85
- The Earth Trembles 87
- Against Colonialism 92
- Realms of Memory 97
- Red Shadows 99
- Spanish Ghosts 106
- Santiago Remembrance 111
- U-topia 117
- 4 Bohemia: Between Melancholy and Revolution 120
- Sociology 120
- Marx 127
- Gustave Courbet 132
- Walter Benjamin 138
- Leon Trotsky 141
- Bohemia and Revolution 142
- Movements and Figures 149
- 5 Marxism and the Wrest 151
- Zeitgeist 151
- Hegelian Sources 154
- Empires 156
- "Peoples Without History" 158
- Violence and Rebellion 160
- Tensions 163
- Aftermaths 164
- A Missed Dialogue 166
- Parting Ways 174
- 6 Adorno and Benjamin: Letters at Midnight in the Century 178
- Testimonies 178
- Constellation 181
- Hierarchies 183
- Exile 186
- Politics 190
- Surrealism 195
- Mass Culture 198
- Redemption 200
- 7 Synchronic Times: Walter Benjamin and Daniel Bensaïd 204
- Portbou 204
- Paris 209
- Rereading Marx 215
- Synchronic Times 217
- Historicism 222
- Revolution 226
- Utopia 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231179423
- 0231179421
- OCLC:
- 950448523
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