Enzo Traverso
Enzo Traverso | |
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| Born | October 14, 1957 Gavi, Piedmont,Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Education | PhD,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 Europeanintellectual history.[1]He is the author of several books oncritical theory,theHolocaust,Marxism,memory,totalitarianism,revolution,and contemporaryhistoriography.His books have been translated into numerous languages. After living and working inFrancefor over 25 years, he is currently the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities atCornell University.[2][3]
Education
[edit]Enzo Traverso obtained a master's degree (Laurea) in modern history at theUniversity of Genoa(Italy) in 1982. After moving to Paris in 1985 to further pursue his academic trajectory he completed his PhD program atSchool for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences(EHESS) in 1989, under the direction ofMichael Löwy.[4]In 2009 he achieved the academic qualification of habilitation (accreditation to supervise research).[5]
Career
[edit]From 1989 through 1991, he worked for theInternational Institute for Research and Education(IIRE) based inAmsterdam,and after that in theLibrary of contemporary international documentation(BDIC) in Nanterre. He also held the position of a lecturer in the Departement of Political science at theUniversity of Paris VIII(1993–1995) and atSchool for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences(EHESS) (1994–1997). In 1995 he was hired by theUniversity of Picardie Jules VerneinAmiensas an assistant professor. He was later promoted to full professor, a post he held from 2009 to 2013, when he joined the faculty at Cornell.[5]In 2014, he was awarded thePremio Pozzale Luigi Russoand in 2016, the Huésped de Honor Extraordinario,Universidad Nacional de La Plata,in recognition of his historical scholarship.
Works
[edit]Original works
[edit]- Revolution: An Intellectual History,Verso, 2021,ISBN978-1839763335.
- Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (New Directions in Critical Theory),Columbia University Press; 2nd Revised ed., 2017,ISBN978-0231179423.[6][7]
- 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
[edit]- Singular Past: The I in theHistoriography,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 byJanet 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,ISBN0-391-03806-0
References
[edit]- ^Glaser, Linda (Fall 2013)."Historian Enzo Traverso named first Winokur Professor".Ezra Magazine.Retrieved22 February2021.
- ^"Enzo Traverso | History Cornell Arts & Sciences".history.cornell.edu.Retrieved18 December2020.
- ^Taibi, Nidal (13 October 2020)."Enzo Traverso:" Nos historiens restent enfermés dans leur univers "".www.marianne.net(in French).Retrieved17 December2020.
- ^"Enzo Traverso, la lucidité d'un" vaincu "".Le Monde.fr(in French). 22 December 2016.Retrieved17 December2020.
- ^ab""Curriculum Vitae""(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 11 March 2012.Retrieved31 March2011.
- ^Raduly, Étienne (10 May 2017)."Enzo Traverso, Left-Wing Melancholia. Marxism, History, and Memory".Lectures(in French).doi:10.4000/lectures.22844.ISSN2116-5289.
- ^Steven, Mark (11 December 2017)."Enzo Traverso, Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory".Affirmations: of the Modern.5(1): 181–189.doi:10.57009/am.10.ISSN2202-9885.
- ^Mesny, Thierry (1991)."Enzo Traverso, Les marxistes et la question juive: histoire d'un débat (1843-1943)".Raison présente.97(1): 185–187.
- ^Régimbald, Karine (2019)."Mélancolie de gauche. La force d'une tradition cachée (XIXe-XXIe siècle), d'Enzo Traverso, Paris, La Découverte, 2016, 232 p."Politique et Sociétés(in French).38(2): 187–188.doi:10.7202/1062051ar.ISSN1203-9438.
- ^"Enzo Traverso: après la révolution, le post-fascisme?".France Culture(in French). 13 March 2017.Retrieved17 December2020.
- ^Robitaille, Michel-Philippe (2019)."Les nouveaux visages du fascisme, d'Enzo Traverso, Paris, Textuel, 2017, 160 p."Politique et Sociétés(in French).38(1): 193–196.doi:10.7202/1058301ar.ISSN1203-9438.
- ^"Fire and Blood: The European Civil War by Enzo Traverso review – a history to destablise [sic] liberal complacency ".the Guardian.4 March 2016.Retrieved17 December2020.
- ^Nitzan Lebovic."Critical Inquiry".criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu.Retrieved17 December2020.
