Enzo Traverso taught political science for almost twenty years in France. Since 2013, he has been Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. His publications, all translated into various languages, include more than ten authored and edited books, including The Marxists and the Jewish Question, The Jews and Germany, Understanding the Nazi Genocideand The Origins of Nazi Violence.
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
Illustration Credits
Index
