Revolution : an intellectual history /
Traverso 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...
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London ; Brooklyn, New York :
Verso,
[2021]
London ; New York : 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Locomotives of History
- The Railway Age
- Secularization and Temporalization
- Conceptualizing Revolution
- Energy and Labour Power
- 'Máquinas Locas'
- Armoured Trains
- The End of a Myth
- Chapter 2: Revolutionary Bodies
- Insurgent Bodies
- Animalized Bodies
- The People's Two Bodies
- Sovereign Body
- Immortality
- Regeneration
- Liberated Bodies
- Productive Bodies
- Chapter 3: Concepts, Symbols, Realms of Memory
- Fixing a Paradigm
- Counterrevolution
- Katechon
- Iconoclasm
- Symbols
- Thought-Images: 'Man at the Crossroads'
- Chapter 4: The Revolutionary Intellectual, 1848-1945
- Historical Boundaries
- National Contexts
- Physiognomies
- Bohemians and Déclassés
- Maps I: West
- Maps II: Colonial World
- Conscious Pariahs
- Conservative Anti-Intellectualism
- 'Fellow Travellers'
- Thomas Mann's Allegories
- Comintern Intellectuals
- Conclusion: An Ideal-Type
- Tables
- Chapter 5: Between Freedom and Liberation
- Genealogies
- Representations
- Ontology
- Foucault, Arendt and Fanon
- Freedom, Bread and Roses
- Liberation of Time
- Benjamin's Messianic Time
- Chapter 6: Historicizing Communism
- Periodization
- Faces of Communism
- Revolution
- Regime
- Anticolonialism
- Social-Democratic Communism
- The Heteronyms of Ilio Barontini
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Index