{"product_id":"revolution-isbn-9781839763595","title":"Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Brilliant and beautiful. Now this book exists, it’s hard to know how we did without it.\"\u003cbr\u003e–China Miéville, author of \u003ci\u003eOctober \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book 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 barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt connects theories with the existential trajectories of the thinkers who elaborated them, by sketching the diverse profiles of revolutionary intellectuals--from Marx and Bakunin to Luxemburg and the Bolsheviks, from Mao and Ho Chi Minh to José Carlos Mariátegui, C.L.R. James, and other rebellious spirits from the South--as outcasts and pariahs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd finally, it analyzes the entanglement between revolution and communism that so deeply shaped the history of the twentieth century. This book thus merges ideas and representations by devoting an equal importance to theoretical and iconographic sources, offering for our troubled present a new intellectual history of the revolutionary past.\u003ci\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. The Locomotives of History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Railway Age\u003cbr\u003eSecularization and Temporalization\u003cbr\u003eConceptualizing Revolution\u003cbr\u003eEnergy and Labour Power\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eMáquinas Locas\u003c\/i\u003e’\u003cbr\u003eArmoured Trains\u003cbr\u003eThe End of a Myth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. Revolutionary Bodies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInsurgent Bodies\u003cbr\u003eAnimalized Bodies\u003cbr\u003eThe People’s Two Bodies\u003cbr\u003eSovereign Body\u003cbr\u003eImmortality\u003cbr\u003eRegeneration\u003cbr\u003eLiberated Bodies\u003cbr\u003eProductive Bodies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. Concepts, Symbols, Realms of Memory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFixing a Paradigm\u003cbr\u003eCounterrevolution\u003cbr\u003eKatechon\u003cbr\u003eIconoclasm\u003cbr\u003eSymbols\u003cbr\u003eThought-Images: ‘Man at the Crossroads’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. The Revolutionary Intellectual, 1848–1945\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorical Boundaries\u003cbr\u003eNational Contexts\u003cbr\u003ePhysiognomies\u003cbr\u003eBohemians and Déclassés\u003cbr\u003eMaps I: West\u003cbr\u003eMaps II: Colonial World\u003cbr\u003eConscious Pariahs\u003cbr\u003eConservative Anti-Intellectualism\u003cbr\u003e‘Fellow Travellers’\u003cbr\u003eThomas Mann’s Allegories\u003cbr\u003eComintern Intellectuals\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: An Ideal-Type\u003cbr\u003eTables\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Between Freedom and Liberation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGenealogies\u003cbr\u003eRepresentations\u003cbr\u003eOntology\u003cbr\u003eFoucault, Arendt and Fanon\u003cbr\u003eFreedom, Bread and Roses\u003cbr\u003eLiberation of Time\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin’s Messianic Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. Historicizing Communism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeriodization\u003cbr\u003eFaces of Communism\u003cbr\u003eRevolution\u003cbr\u003eRegime\u003cbr\u003eAnticolonialism\u003cbr\u003eSocial-Democratic Communism\u003cbr\u003eThe Heteronyms of Ilio Barontini\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIllustration Credits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\"Brilliant and beautiful. Now this book exists, it’s hard to know how we did without it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—China Miéville\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A monumental achievement, and should be a touchstone for today’s left. We can’t build a future beyond capitalism without coming to terms with the challenging history it confronts.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Neil Vallelly, \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offering one of the most unsentimental yet non-reactionary meditations on revolution ever written, Traverso comes not to bury or praise the earthly drive to \"take heaven by storm\" but to understand it anew. Enriched by a lifelong study of historiography and politics, immense historical knowledge, theoretical polyamory, and a compelling artistic eye, this book also features splendid humility in exploring its slippery, complex and important subject. For those who long to craft a different order of things, Traverso's account is essential. For those who want to ponder what spirits revolutions or makes shipwrecks of them, this rare work roams the globe and the library, reflecting on Phnom Penh and Havana, not only Paris and Moscow, and thinking with Weber, Arendt, Fanon and Constant, not only Trotsky, Lenin and Mao.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Wendy Brown, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Ruins of Neoliberalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vividly written, full of sparkling details and sharp theoretical insights...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Hannah Proctor, \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A perfect partnering of author and subject! Enzo Traverso is the Marxist scholar most gifted to present us with a masterfully articulated appraisal of the perplexing presence of concepts and images of revolutions in the political imagination. His astonishing scholarly expertise is on display with stunning elegance to reveal a rich tapestry of material from the 19th and 20th centuries, along with a multitude of riveting actors and thinkers. Revolution is a monumental advance in its sophisticated and supple interpretations; it is also a virtuoso performance in the art of refreshingly precise, rigorously compact exposition, complemented by a novelist’s flair for narrative power and dramatic verve.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This brilliant essay on the images of revolutions is a unique experiment, which has no equivalent in the vast historiographic literature on the subject. Inspired by Marx, Trotsky ,and Walter Benjamin, it is built as a montage of dialectical images, which function as lamps that illuminate the past. Enzo Traverso, probably the most gifted historian of his generation, does not hide his hostility to what he calls the “octopus of universal commodity reification”; without idealizing the past revolutions , he wants to preserve, in this fascinating and heterodox piece of research, the memory of historical experience. Quoting Benjamin: we cannot ignore the claim that the past has on us…\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMichael Löwy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Something for every revolutionary.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSocialist Worker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnzo Traverso\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Italy and taught history and political theory in France for almost twenty years. Since 2013, is Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. He is the author of several of books, including Fire and Blood: The European Civil War (2016), Left-Wing Melancholia (2017), and The New Faces of Fascism (2019), which have been translated into a dozen of languages. He regularly writes for Jacobin in the US, Il Manifesto in Italy, and other French and Spanish-language magazines. He has also taught as visiting professor in several countries of continental Europe and Latin America.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302615634149,"sku":"NP9781839763595","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781839763595.jpg?v=1767735719","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/revolution-isbn-9781839763595","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}