Left-Wing Melancholia : : Marxism, History, and Memory / / Enzo Traverso.

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016]
©2017
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:New Directions in Critical Theory ; 17
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 50 b&w photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Culture of Defeat
  • 2. Marxism and Memory
  • 3. Melancholy Images
  • 4. Bohemia
  • 5. Marxism and the West
  • 6. Adorno and Benjamin
  • 7. Synchronic Times
  • Notes
  • Index