Enzo Traverso
Enzo Traverso | |
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École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), M.A. (Laurea), University of Genoa | |
Occupation | Historian |
Employer | Cornell University |
Enzo Traverso (born 14 October 1957) is an Italian scholar of European intellectual history.[1] He is the author of several books on critical theory, the Holocaust, Marxism, memory, totalitarianism, revolution, and contemporary historiography. His books have been translated into numerous languages. After living and working in France for over 25 years, he is currently the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University.[2][3]
Education
Enzo Traverso obtained a master's degree (Laurea) in modern history at the
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in 1989, under the direction of Michael Löwy.[4] In 2009 he achieved the academic qualification of habilitation (accreditation to supervise research).[5]
Career
From 1989 through 1991, he worked for the
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
, in recognition of his historical scholarship.
Works
Original works
- Revolution: An Intellectual History, Verso, 2021, ISBN 978-1839763335.
- Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (New Directions in Critical Theory), Columbia University Press; 2nd Revised ed., 2017,
- Les Marxistes et la question juive, La Brèche-PEC, Montreuil, 1990.[8]
- Les Juifs et l'Allemagne, de la symbiose judéo-allemande à la mémoire d'Auschwitz, La Découverte, Paris, 1992.
- Siegfried Kracauer. Itinéraire d’un intellectuel nomade, La Découverte, Paris, 1994.
- L'Histoire déchirée, essai sur Auschwitz et les intellectuels, Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 1997.
- Pour une critique de la barbarie moderne : écrits sur l'histoire des Juifs et l'antisémitisme, Éditions Page deux (Cahiers libres), Lausanne, 2000.
- Le Totalitarisme : Le XXe siècle en débat, 2001.
- La Violence nazie : Essai de généalogie historique, 2002, La Fabrique, Paris.
- La Pensée dispersée : Figures de l'exil judéo-allemand, 2004.
- Le Passé, mode d'emploi : Histoire, mémoire, politique, 2005, La Fabrique, Paris.
- À Feu et à sang : De la guerre civile européenne, 1914-1945, Stock, Paris, 2007.
- L'histoire comme champ de bataille : Interpréter les violences du XXe siècle, La Découverte, Paris, 2011.
- La fin de la modernité juive : Histoire d'un tournant conservateur, La Découverte, Paris, 2013.
- Mélancolie de gauche : La force d’une tradition cachée (XIXe-XXIe siècle), La Découverte, Paris, 2016.[9]
- Les nouveaux visages du fascisme, Textuel, 2017[10][11]
English translations
- Singular Past: The I in the Historiography, transl. from the French by Adam Schoene, Columbia University Press, 2022.
- The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate, Brill, Leiden, 2018
- The End of Jewish Modernity, Pluto Press, London, 2016, translated by David Fernbach.
- Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914–1945, Verso, 2016[12][13]
- The Origins of Nazi Violence, New Press, 2003, translated by Janet Lloyd.
- Understanding the Nazi Genocide: Marxism after Auschwitz, Pluto Press, London, 1999, translated by Peter Drucker.
- The Jews & Germany: From the "Judeo-German Symbiosis" to the Memory of Auschwitz, U. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1995, translated by Daniel Weissbort.
- The Marxists and the Jewish question. The history of a Debate (1843-1943), Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1994, translated by Bernard Gibbons, ISBN 0-391-03806-0
References
- ^ Glaser, Linda (Fall 2013). "Historian Enzo Traverso named first Winokur Professor". Ezra Magazine. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ "Enzo Traverso | History Cornell Arts & Sciences". history.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
- ^ Taibi, Nidal (2020-10-13). "Enzo Traverso : "Nos historiens restent enfermés dans leur univers"". www.marianne.net (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-17.
- ^ "Enzo Traverso, la lucidité d'un " vaincu "". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
- ^ a b ""Curriculum Vitae"" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
- ISSN 2116-5289.
- ISSN 2202-9885.
- ^ Mesny, Thierry (1991). "Enzo Traverso, Les marxistes et la question juive : histoire d'un débat (1843-1943)". Raison présente. 97 (1): 185–187.
- ISSN 1203-9438.
- ^ "Enzo Traverso : après la révolution, le post-fascisme ?". France Culture (in French). 13 March 2017. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
- ISSN 1203-9438.
- ^ "Fire and Blood: The European Civil War by Enzo Traverso review – a history to destablise [sic] liberal complacency". the Guardian. 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
- ^ Nitzan Lebovic. "Critical Inquiry". criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
External links
- Cornell University biography
- "Nazism’s roots in European culture - Production line of murder" in Le Monde diplomatique, February 2005
- Interview with Enzo Traverso: "History can be an ‘arm of power’" in Barcelona Metropolis Magazine, Winter, 2010.