Left-Wing Melancholia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Left-Wing Melancholia write by Enzo Traverso. This book was released on 2017-01-10. Left-Wing Melancholia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, 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. Drawing on a vast and diverse archive in theory, testimony, and image and on such thinkers as Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. 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. 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.
A Leftist Ontology
A Leftist Ontology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Leftist Ontology write by Carsten Strathausen. This book was released on 2009. A Leftist Ontology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rich with analyses of concepts from deconstruction, systems theory, and post-Marxism, with critiques of fundamentalist thought and the war on terror, this volume argues for developing a philosophy of being in order to overcome the quandary of postmodern relativism. Undergirding the contributions are the premises that ontology is a vital concept for philosophy today, that an acceptable leftist ontology must avoid the kind of identity politics that has dominated recent cultural studies, and that a new ontology must be situated within global capitalism.
Melancholia of Freedom
Melancholia of Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melancholia of Freedom write by Thomas Blom Hansen. This book was released on 2012-07-22. Melancholia of Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined postapartheid freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. Exploring five decades of township life, Hansen tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban space and its institutions, during apartheid and after. Hansen demonstrates the complex and ambivalent nature of ordinary township life. While the ideology of apartheid was widely rejected, its practical institutions, from urban planning to houses, schools, and religious spaces, were embraced in order to remake the community. Hansen describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics. He also demonstrates the force of global religious imaginings that promise a universal and inclusive community amid uncertain lives and futures in the postapartheid nation-state.
Egress
Egress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Egress write by Matt Colquhoun. This book was released on 2020-03-10. Egress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Egress is the first book to consider the legacy and work of the writer, cultural critic and cult academic Mark Fisher. Narrated in orbit of his death as experienced by a community of friends and students in 2017, it analyses Fisher’s philosophical trajectory, from his days as a PhD student at the University of Warwick to the development of his unfinished book on Acid Communism. Taking the word “egress” as its starting point—a word used by Fisher in his book The Weird and the Eerie to describe an escape from present circumstances as experiences by the characters in countless examples of weird fiction—Egress consider the politics of death and community in a way that is indebted to Fisher’s own forms of cultural criticism, ruminating on personal experience in the hope of making it productively impersonal.
Capitalist Realism
Capitalist Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capitalist Realism write by Mark Fisher. This book was released on 2022-11-25. Capitalist Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system.
