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

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Bonnett, Alastair, 1964-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Continuum, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 194 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781441113245
144111324X
9781501301568
150130156X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Left in the past.DDC classification:

320.53 22

LOC classification:

BF575.N6 B66 2010eb

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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, 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. Bonnett's unique approach in how to understand the left in an age of post-socialism makes Left in the Past a provocative but necessary resource for anyone interested in the history and politics of the left and radicalism

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-188) and index.

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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, 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. Bonnett's unique approach in how to understand the left in an age of post-socialism makes Left in the Past a provocative but necessary resource for anyone interested in the history and politics of the left and radicalism

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