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 tr
Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashesFire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914–
Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashesThis book explores the entanglement between politics, culture and violence in the age of the “European civil war” (1914–45). In these catac
What is fascism in the twenty first century?What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to the years between the two world wa
The relationship of Marxism to the "Jewish Question" is far more complex than many have assumed. Despite the Jewish backgrounds of several Marxists (including Marx himself), many showed a sense of ind
In The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate, Enzo Traverso analyses an intellectual controversy that runs over more than a century, between Jewish emancipation and the Holocaust, between Marx