His authored books are translated into more than fifteen languages, and he has contributed to many collected works and. He has been a visiting professor in several European and Latin American universities. Before coming to Cornell in 2013, he taught political science for twenty years in France. He was born in Italy, studied history at the University of Genoa and received his PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris in 1989. War, fascism, genocide, revolution, and collective memory are the landmarks of his numerous books. His research focuses on the intellectual history and the political ideas of the twentieth century. Yet hidden within this melancholic tradition are the resources for a renewed challenge to prevailing regimes of historicity, a passion that has the power to reignite the dialectic of revolutionary thought.Enzo Traverso is a historian of modern and contemporary Europe. Adorno, and others, the intellectual historian Enzo Traverso explores the varying nature of left melancholy as it has manifested in a feeling of guilt for not sufficiently challenging authority, in a fear of surrendering in disarray and resignation, in mourning the human costs of the past, and in a sense of failure for not realizing utopian aspirations. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholy, from classical Marxism to psychoanalysis to the advent of critical theory, a culture of defeat and its emotional overlay of melancholy have characterized the leftist understanding of the political in history and in theoretical critique.ĭrawing on a vast and diverse archive in theory, testimony, and image and on such thinkers as Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. 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.
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