War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Losurdo, Domenico

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781686165 ISBN 13: 9781781686164

Verlag: Verso Books, 2015

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Críticas:

"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. Azzar and Leonardo Pecoraro, International Critical Thought "War and Revolution 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

Reseña del editor:

War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that's grown increasingly apparent in recent years. It's a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust to the excesses of the Russian Revolution; or Fran ois Furet, who links the Stalinist purges to an "illness" originating with the French Revolution. The intention of these revisionists is to eradicate the revolutionary tradition. Their true motives have little to do with the quest for a greater understanding of the past, but lie in the climate of the present day and the ideological needs of the political classes, as is most clearly seen now in the work of the Anglophone imperial revivalists Paul Johnson and Niall Ferguson. In this vigorous riposte to those who would denigrate the history of emancipatory struggle, Losurdo captivates the reader with a tour de force account of modern revolt, providing a new perspective on the English, American, French and twentieth-century revolutions.

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• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1781686165
• ISBN 13: 9781781686164
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368