Revolution and Restoration

Massimiliano Tomba is Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (Oxford, 2019, pbk 2021, co-winner, David and Elaine Spitz Prize), Attraverso la piccolo porta: Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin (Mimesis, 2017), Marx’s Temporalities (Brill, 2012, Haymarket, 2013), La vera politica: Kant e Benjamin (Quodlibet, 2006), and Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer. Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken (Peter Lang, 2005).

"We must remember, salvage, refuse, remake. Tomba shows us how. He gives us a past - many pasts - and with them, many far better futures. This work salvages diverse legacies: from workers, from the indigenous, from rebellious peasants, from the poor of every continent, from religious and secular, democrat, communist, and anarchist. As he guides us through these lost pasts, we can see decolonization overcoming dispossession, and older, more capacious ideas of property replacing power and mindless oligarchy. He points us toward earlier work in building worlds where people rule and money is silent. We can have these worlds." - Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania "Revolution and Restoration is a work of stunning sophistication and subtlety. It makes methodological, conceptual, and philosophical contributions of the first order that are richly illustrated by empirical cases. The book will be read by philosophers, political theorists, historians, and anthropologists and broadly by intellectuals." - Uday Mehta, CUNY Graduate Center

• Preface viiIntroduction: The Work of Anachronism and the Configuration of New Concepts 11. Revolution and Restoration 222. Private and Social Property 42To Hold Land Differently: Another Way of Owning 583. Democracy and the Democratic Excess 734. Citizenship and Sanctuary 95Afterword 117Acknowledgments 123Notes 125Index 155