Domenico Losurdo was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Urbino, Italy. He is the author of many books in Italian, German, French and Spanish. In English he has published Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns, Heidegger and the Ideology of War, and Liberalism: A Counterhistory.

“Losurdo’s book, fruit of a continuous intertwining of historical investigations and philosophical reflections, not only constitutes a criticism of historical revisionism but also does not want to be just an invitation to look to the past to better understand the century behind us: it contains precious tools for criticising the war ideology that the West seems to want to reinstate today.”– Stefano G. Azzarà & Leonardo Pecoraro, International Critical Thought (in praise of  War and Revolution)“War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century is a relentless document. It is dense and disconcerting. This is precisely why it should be considered one of the most important history books written since … 9-11.”– Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch (in praise of War and Revolution)“Stimulatingly uncovers the contradictions of an ideology that is much too self-righteously invoked.”– Pankaj Mishra (in priase of Liberalism: A Counter-History), Guardian

• Foreword1. The Fight for the Vote: A Tortuous and Still-Unfinished History2. A New Tutor for the 'Childlike' Multitude3. An Alternative to Property Qualifications: The Origins of Bonapartism, from America to France4. The Trumpets of the Ruling Classes and the Bells of the Subaltern5. The Bonapartist Regime's Baptism of Fire6. Universal Suffrage, Proportional Representation and the Reaction Against It7. The Twentieth Century: Between Emancipation and Disemancipation8. The Triumph of Soft BonapartismIndex

Domenico Losurdo was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Urbino, Italy. He is the author of many books in Italian, German, French and Spanish. In English he has published Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns, Heidegger and the Ideology of War, and Liberalism: A Counterhistory.

“Losurdo’s book, fruit of a continuous intertwining of historical investigations and philosophical reflections, not only constitutes a criticism of historical revisionism but also does not want to be just an invitation to look to the past to better understand the century behind us: it contains precious tools for criticising the war ideology that the West seems to want to reinstate today.”– Stefano G. Azzarà & Leonardo Pecoraro, International Critical Thought (in praise of  War and Revolution)“War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century is a relentless document. It is dense and disconcerting. This is precisely why it should be considered one of the most important history books written since … 9-11.”– Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch (in praise of War and Revolution)“Stimulatingly uncovers the contradictions of an ideology that is much too self-righteously invoked.”– Pankaj Mishra (in priase of Liberalism: A Counter-History), Guardian

• Foreword1. The Fight for the Vote: A Tortuous and Still-Unfinished History2. A New Tutor for the 'Childlike' Multitude3. An Alternative to Property Qualifications: The Origins of Bonapartism, from America to France4. The Trumpets of the Ruling Classes and the Bells of the Subaltern5. The Bonapartist Regime's Baptism of Fire6. Universal Suffrage, Proportional Representation and the Reaction Against It7. The Twentieth Century: Between Emancipation and Disemancipation8. The Triumph of Soft BonapartismIndex