His political commentaries have appeared in journals and magazines such as Jacobin, Salvage, La Quinzaine littéraire, Contretemps, Lignes, L’Espill, Nueva Sociedad, and the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto. He has received several awards for his historical essays, including the Premio Pozzale, Empoli, Florence (2014) the Premio Lo Straniero/Gli Asini, Lecce (2018) and the Premio Napoli (2022). Beyond his books, Traverso’s articles and reviews have been published in History & Theory, Constellations, Historical Materialism, South Atlantic Quarterly, October, Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions, Revue française de science politique, Raisons politiques, Storia e storiografia, Contemporanea, Pasajes, Acta Poetica. His authored books are translated into more than fifteen languages, and he has contributed to many collected works and.

He has been a visiting professor in several European and Latin American universities. Read 34 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Enzo Traverso redefines our understanding of the current regimes of temporalitya sorrowful transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first centuryand challenges historians and critical theorists. Before coming to Cornell in 2013, he taught political science for twenty years in France. Left-Wing Melancholia is a path breaking work that combines history and political theory with a concise, richly analytical, exciting narrative.

He was born in Italy, studied history at the University of Genoa and received his PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris in 1989. War, fascism, genocide, revolution, and collective memory are the landmarks of his numerous books. His research focuses on the intellectual history and the political ideas of the twentieth century. Left-Wing Melancholia is both an exhilarating work of intellectual synthesis as well as a pathbreaking study in cultural history. Enzo Traverso is a historian of modern and contemporary Europe.

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