Left-Wing Melancholia by Traverso, Enzo -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Series Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Haunting Pasts Without Utopias

Historical Turn End of Utopias Three Realms of Revolution Three Memories Specters

1. The Culture of Defeat

Shipwreck with Spectator The Vanquished Left Dialectic of Defeat Left-Wing Melancholy The Antinomies of Walter Benjamin The Melancholy Wager

2. Marxism and Memory

Enter Memory, Exit Marx Memory of the Future Myth and Remembrance Futures’ Past

3. Melancholy Images

Film and History The Earth Trembles Against Colonialism Realms of Memory Red Shadows Spanish Ghosts Santiago Remembrance U-topia

4. Bohemia: Between Melancholy and Revolution

Sociology Marx Gustave Courbet Walter Benjamin Leon Trotsky Bohemia and Revolution Movements and Figures

5. Marxism and the West

Zeitgeist Hegelian Sources Empires “Peoples Without History” Violence and Rebellion Tensions Aftermaths A Missed Dialogue Parting Ways

6. Adorno and Benjamin: Letters at Midnight in the Century

Testimonies Constellation Hierarchies Exile Politics Surrealism Mass Culture Redemption

7. Synchronic Times: Walter Benjamin and Daniel Bensaïd

Portbou Paris Rereading Marx Synchronic Times Historicism Revolution Utopia

Notes Index

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