Bøger af Enzo Traverso

A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutions

Is the destruction of Gaza only a consequence of the October 7, 2023 attack, or is it also the outcome of a long process of dispossession and eradication? Alongside the ritual statements about Israel's right to defend itself, no one ever mentions the Palestinians' right to resist decades-long aggression.

Hvad er fascisme i dag? Konfronteret med begivenheder som valget af Trump og Brexit-afstemningen og politikere som Orban, Duterte og Bolsonaro ogpartier som Lega er det igen blevet relevant at tale om fascisme. Men hvad kendetegner den ny fascisme? Hvordan erden lig og hvordan adskiller den sig fra mellemkrigstidens fascisme?Mikkel Bolt og Jakob Jakobsen har redigeret en antologi, som udstikkerkoordinaterne for en analyse af samtidens fascisme i politik, kultur og hverdagsliv. Bogens tekster argumenterer fornødvendigheden af kritisk at analysere fascismens nye former ogkonfrontere dem uanset hvor de viser sig: som politiske partier, enumenneskelig asylpolitik eller ironisk reaktionær samtidskunst. Med bidrag om Indien, Brasilien, Tyskland, Frankrig og USA kortlæggerantologien fascismens nye former og viser, hvordan den ny fascisme er en fortsættelse af såvel kolonialisme som mellemkrigstidens fascismer.Bogen indeholder bidrag af Enzo Traverso, Denise Ferreira da Silva, JairusBanaji, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Kerstin Stakemeier og Mikkel Bolt.Mikkel Bolt er professor i politisk æstetik på Københavns Universitet og forfatter til en række bøger, deriblandtTrumps kontrarevolution, som er blevet oversat til engelsk, fransk, italiensk og græsk.Jakob Jakobsen er billedkunstner og aktivist. Han står bag Hospital for Self Medication og har netop udgivet bogenOphør oprør – dagbog fra en indlæggelse.

In this collection of essays, Enzo Traverso examines the relationships between anti-Semitism, modernity and the Holocaust. The different parts of the book analyse multiple dimensions of the destruction of the European Jews, debates over historical memory and left-wing debates on the nature of anti-Semitism.

In this updated and completely revised second edition, Enzo Traverso carefully reconstructs the intellectual debate surrounding the "Jewish Question' over a century of Marxist thought.

Debunks a myth: that once upon a time, there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the best in each other. This book argues that to the contrary, the attainments of Jews in the German-speaking world were due to the Jews aspiring to be German, with little help from and often against the open hostility of Germans.

Has Jewish modernity exhausted itself? Flourishing between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, the intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy of Jewish modernity continues to dazzle us, however, in this provocative new book, esteemed historian Enzo Traverso argues powerfully that this cultural epoch has come to an end. *BR**BR*Previously a beacon for critical thinking in the Western world, the mainstream of Jewish thought has, since the end of the war, undergone a conservative turn. With great sensitivity and nuance, Traverso traces this development to the virtual destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis, and the establishment of the United States and Israel as the new poles of Jewish communal life. This is a compelling narrative, hinged upon a highly original discussion of Hannah Arendt's writings on Jewishness and politics. *BR**BR*With provocative chapters on the relationship between antisemitism and Islamophobia, the ascendance of Zionism, and the new 'civil religion of the Holocaust', The End of Jewish Modernity is both an elegy to a lost tradition and an intellectual history of the present.*BR*

Traverso rejects the belief that the Holocaust was an historical aberration completely outside the trajectory of Western civilization, and sets out to demonstrate that it was the culmination of Western liberal thought.