Name: Revolution: An Intellectual History
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Author: Enzo Traverso
ISBN: 9781839763595

portada Revolution: An Intellectual History

Type

Physical Book

Author

Enzo Traverso

Publisher

Verso

Language

English

Pages

480

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.9x13x3 cm

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN13

9781839763595

Synopsis "Revolution: An Intellectual History"

"Brilliant and beautiful. Now this book exists, it's hard to know how we did without it."-China Miéville, author of October A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutions This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "dialectical images" Marx's "locomotives of history," Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste Blanqui's barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others. It connects theories with the existential trajectories of the thinkers who elaborated them, by sketching the diverse profiles of revolutionary intellectuals--from Marx and Bakunin to Luxemburg and the Bolsheviks, from Mao and Ho Chi Minh to José Carlos Mariátegui, C.L.R. James, and other rebellious spirits from the South--as outcasts and pariahs. And finally, it analyzes the entanglement between revolution and communism that so deeply shaped the history of the twentieth century. This book thus merges ideas and representations by devoting an equal importance to theoretical and iconographic sources, offering for our troubled present a new intellectual history of the revolutionary past.

Enzo Traverso

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Born in Italy, Enzo Traverso completed his PhD in France, where he was a professor at the University of Picardy for many years. Since 2013, he is Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. An internationally renowned author, he currently holds the place of historiographical preeminence once occupied by E. P. Thompson or Eric Hobsbawm. His latest publications, in Spanish, are El totalitarismo. Historia de un debate (2001), La violencia nazi. Una genealogía europea (2002), El pasado, instrucciones de uso. Historia, memoria, política (2007), ¿Qué fue de los intelectuales? (2009), A sangre y fuego. De la guerra civil europea (1914-1945) (2009), La historia desgarrada. Ensayo sobre Auschwitz y los intelectuales (2011), La historia como campo de batalla. Interpretar las violencias del siglo xx (2012), El final de la modernidad judía. Historia de un giro conservador (2013), Las nuevas caras de la derecha (2018), Melancolía de la izquierda. Después de las utopías (2019), Pasados singulares: El «yo» en la escritura de la Historia (2022) and La cuestión judía. Historia de un debate marxista (2023). At Akal, he published Revolución. Una historia intelectual (2022)

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