Left in the past : radicalism and the politics of nostalgia / by Alastair Bonnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonnett, Alastair, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nostalgia--Political aspects.

Nostalgia.

Radicalism--Social aspects.

Radicalism.

Socialism--Social aspects.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Left in the Past, Alastair Bonnett re-assesses the place of nostalgia within radical politics and, in doing so, provides a new introduction to the history and politics of the left. Left in the Past argues that nostalgia has been an important, but repressed, aspect of the socialist imagination. The book begins by showing the centrality and repression of nostalgia in both 19th-century radicalism and anti-colonial radicalism. This is followed by an examination of the consequences of this inheritance amongst revolutionary intellectuals in the twentieth century. Bonnett also shows that, today, i

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter One: Nostalgia and the Left: Denial, Danger and Doubt

Chapter Two: Nostalgia in and against English Socialist History, 1775-1894

Chapter Three: Worlds We Have Lost: Nostalgia in Anti-Colonialism and Postcolonialism

Chapter Four: The Melancholia of Cosmopolis

Chapter Five: Yearning at the Extremes: Situationist Nostalgia

Chapter Six: The Psychogeography of Loss/ Conclusion: Acknowledging Nostalgia

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612821677

9781501301568

150130156X

9781282821675

1282821679

9781441113245

144111324X

OCLC:

670412106