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Left-wing melancholia: Marxism, history, and memory

By Enzo , Traverso

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN
9780231543019, 0231543018
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
16 MB (17101802 bytes)
Series
New directions in critical theory.; Columbia scholarship online
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Communism;Communism--History;History--Philosophy;M

Description

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.

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