Left in the Past : Radicalism and the Politics of Nostalgia.

Left in the Past : Radicalism and the Politics of Nostalgia.

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. Th...

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Main Author: Bonnett, Alastair
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010.
Subjects:
Nostalgia > Political aspects.
Radicalism > Social aspects.
Socialism > Social aspects.
Nostalgia > Political aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Dilemmas of Radical Nostalgia; Acknowledging Nostalgia: Four Provocations; Six Windows onto Radical Nostalgia; Part One; Chapter One: Nostalgia and the Left: Denial, Danger and Doubt; Chapter Two: Nostalgia in and against English Socialism, 17751894; Part Two; Chapter Three: Worlds We Have Lost: Nostalgia in Anti-colonialism and Post-colonialism; Chapter Four: The Melancholia of Cosmopolis; Part Three; Chapter Five: Yearning at the Extremes: Situationist Nostalgia; Chapter Six: The Psychogeography of Loss; Conclusion: Acknowledging Nostalgia.
  • ReferencesIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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