TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bonnett,Alastair
TI  - Left in the past: radicalism and the politics of nostalgia 
SN  - 9781441113245
AV  - BF575.N6 B66 2010eb
U1  - 320.53 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Nostalgia
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Radicalism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Nostalgie
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - Radicalisme
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Ideologies
KW  - Fascism & Totalitarianism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-188) and index; 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
N2  - 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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