Left in the past : radicalism and the politics of nostalgia / / by Alastair Bonnett

• Autore: Bonnett Alastair <1964->
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Continuum, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.53
• Soggetto topico: Nostalgia - Political aspects; Radicalism - Social aspects; Socialism - Social aspects
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Left in the Past, Alastair 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. Left in the Past argues that nostalgia has been an important, but repressed, aspect of the socialist imagination. The book begins by showing the centrality and repression of nostalgia in both 19th-century radicalism and anti-colonial radicalism. This is followed by an examination of the consequences of this inheritance amongst revolutionary intellectuals in the twentieth century. Bonnett also shows that, today, i
• Titolo autorizzato: Left in the past
• ISBN: 1-5013-0156-X; 1-282-82167-9; 9786612821677; 1-4411-1324-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785260003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II