Left in the Past

Radicalism and the Politics of Nostalgia

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

This title looks at the role nostalgia plays in the radical imagination to offer a new guide to the history and politics of the left. In "Left in the Past", Bonnett re-assesses the place of nostalgia within radical politics and, in doing so, provides a new introduction to the history and politics of the left. Bonnett argues that nostalgia has been a chronic, but repressed, aspect of the socialist imagination. "Left in the Past" is premised on the idea that, in our 'post-socialist era', the relationship between radicalism and a sense of loss, and the ambivalent position of socialism in and against modernity, can be viewed with greater clarity. In section one of the book, Bonnett shows the centrality and repression of nostalgia in both 19th-century radicalism and anticolonial radicalism. In section two, he explores the consequences of this inheritance by way of 20th century and contemporary studies of revolutionary intellectuals and intellectual culture. Bonnett's unique approach in how to understand the left in an age of post-socialism will make book a needed resource for anyone interested in the history and politics of the left and radicalism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-05-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt:307 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN:9780826430076

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Professor, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University. Bonnett has published and can claim academic expertise in the politics of nostalgia; early English radicalism; the politics of pluralism/anti-racism; the politics of the avant-garde

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"Alastair Bonnett persuades us that the left can come to terms with nostalgia, because nostalgia-if the left did but realize it-is both a fact and an underutilized quality of leftist thought, and to prove it, Left in the Past conspires an unexpected rendezvous between early socialism, post-colonialism, and situationism. Unforeseen too is how this examination of nostalgia sheds new light on its opponent, modernity, placing the two rivals for the hearts and minds of the left in a truly welcome exchange. The book's novel readings of renowned cultural theories on the one hand, and exposés of arcane psycogeography on the other, will intrigue scholars, activists and students alike in virtually any area of politics, the arts, the humanities and social sciences. Bonnett writes with the humanity of someone who has thought through the contradictions he has felt within himself and which he wants now to share with others. And in a delicious irony, his findings are presented clearly and unsentimentally." --Simon Sadler, Professor of Architectural and Urban History, University of California, Davis

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Chapter One: Nostalgia and the Left: Denial, Danger and Doubt; Chapter Two: Nostalgia in and against English Socialist History, 1775-1894; Chapter Three: Worlds We Have Lost: Nostalgia in Anti-Colonialism and Postcolonialism; Chapter Four: The Melancholia of Cosmopolis; Chapter Five: Yearning at the Extremes: Situationist Nostalgia; Chapter Six: The Psychogeography of Loss; Conclusion: Acknowledging Nostalgia; References; Index.