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Contents 8 Illustrations 12 Preface 14 Acknowledgments 18 Introduction: Haunting Pasts Without Utopias 24 Historical Turn 24 End of Utopias 28 Three Realms of Revolution 35 Three Memories 37 Specters 42 1 The Culture of Defeat 45 Shipwreck with Spectator 45 The Vanquished Left 48 Dialectic of Defeat 54 Left-Wing Melancholy 61 The Antinomies of Walter Benjamin 68 The Melancholy Wager 71 2 Marxism and Memory 77 Enter Memory, Exit Marx 77 Memory of the Future 81 Myth and Remembrance 96 Futures’ Past 97 3 Melancholy Images 108 Film and History 108 The Earth Trembles 110 Against Colonialism 115 Realms of Memory 120 Red Shadows 122 Spanish Ghosts 129 Santiago Remembrance 134 U-topia 140 4 Bohemia: Between Melancholy and Revolution 143 Sociology 143 Marx 150 Gustave Courbet 155 Walter Benjamin 161 Leon Trotsky 164 Bohemia and Revolution 165 Movements and Figures 172 5 Marxism and the West 174 Zeitgeist 174 Hegelian Sources 177 Empires 179 “Peoples Without History 181 Violence and Rebellion 183 Tensions 186 Aftermaths 187 A Missed Dialogue 189 Parting Ways 197 6 Adorno and Benjamin: Letters at Midnight in the Century 201 Testimonies 201 Constellation 204 Hierarchies 206 Exile 209 Politics

Author

Enzo Traverso

Language

EN