Walter Benjamin compared revolution to nuclear fission: an explosion capable of unleashing and multiplying the energy contained in the past. This book does not narrate the history of revolutions in chronological order; it interprets them as collective outbursts that destroy the established order and open new horizons of expectation. They are factories of utopias.

Enzo Traverso uses the concept of revolution as an interpretive key to understand modernity, not only its social and political structures but also its ideas and collective imagination, or even its aesthetic forms. This means grasping the intellectual and emotional dimensions of revolutions, which have been deposited in texts and images, theories and experiences, material heritage, and collective memories.

Traverso's Revolution covers the last two centuries of upheaval by analyzing a broad and varied range of materials, rereading normative texts, rediscovering forgotten forms. The result is a captivating historical landscape made up of "dialectical images": locomotives, bodies, barricades, flags, ceremonies, physical locations, paintings, posters, and symbolic landmarks.

The work on the past is essential to navigate the turbulent waters of the present and to foster a new political imagination for the 21st century.

Author: TRAVERSO ENZO
Language: GREEK
Pages: 504
Dimensions: 240X170X0