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• Enzo Traverso

  Book Review, Enzo Traverso, Revolution in Retrospect & Prospect

  1 September 2023, by PRINCIPE Michael

  REVOLUTION, ENZO TRAVERSO’s impressive engagement with revolutionary theory, practice and imagery, is filled with noteworthy insights and nuanced connections between ideas and events that will cause the reader — even when familiar with the subjects — to pause, reflect and reconsider the (…)

• Enzo Traverso

  Book Review: Enzo Traverso, Melancholy and Mobilisation

  1 January 2020, by FRONCZAK Joseph

  A Review of Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso
  Abstract
  Taking up Walter Benjamin’s idea of ‘left-wing melancholy’, yet investing the concept with redemptive qualities, Enzo Traverso argues that melancholy offers the left a resource for mobilising a return (…)