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Left-Wing Melancholia - Marxism, History, and Memory (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Left-Wing Melancholia - Marxism, History, and Memory (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: New Directions in Critical Theory, 17
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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 thought about their past
since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing
Melancholia, from classical Marxism to psychoanalysis to the advent
of critical theory, a culture of defeat and its emotional overlay
of melancholy have characterized the leftist understanding of the
political in history and in theoretical critique. 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. Yet hidden within this melancholic tradition
are the resources for a renewed challenge to prevailing regimes of
historicity, a passion that has the power to reignite the dialectic
of revolutionary thought.
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