Enzo Traverso

Enzo Traverso ( * 1957 in Gavi, Piedmont ) is an Italian historian and journalist who has lived and worked since the 1980s in Paris. He taught as a professor at Cornell University in the U.S., formerly at the University of Picardie in Amiens and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Life

The author of key works on Auschwitz and modernity, exile, the intellectuals and the Holocaust, as well as Paul Celan, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, inter alia, at the same time employees in the publishing collective la fabrique.

In Germany Enzo Traverso is not only known for his current work but also through his lectures at the jour fixe initiative berlin (1998-2005), whose events newer theories in the light of the question of the meaning of Auschwitz for a critique of society today publicly are discussed. In the summer semester 2009 was Enzo Traverso guest lecturer at the Centre for French Studies at the FU Berlin.

Enzo Traverso was a member of the existing LCR to 2009 and author whose publications Rouge and Critique Communiste.

Works

  • Pour une critique de la barbarie modern: Écrits sur l' histoire des Juifs et de l' antisémitisme. Page deux, Lausanne, 1996; Second, revised edition 1997.
  • L' Histoire déchirée. Essai sur Auschwitz et les intellectuels. Cerf, Paris, 1997.
  • (Ed.) Le totalitarisme. Le XXe siècle en débat. Seuil, Paris, 2001.
  • A feu et à sang. De la guerre civile européenne 1914-1945. Floor, Paris 2007

In German translation

  • The Jews and Germany. Auschwitz and the "Jewish- German symbiosis ". Base pressure, 1992, ISBN 3-86163-056-7.
  • The Marxists and the Jewish Question. History of a debate ( 1843-1943 ). Decaton - Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-929455-08-0.
  • ( with Michael Löwy ) The Marxist approach to the national question. A criticism of the interpretation of Ephraim Nimni. In: Michael Lowy: internationalism and nationalism. Critical essays on Marxism and " national question ". New ISP - Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-929008-26-2, pp. 25-44.
  • Socialism and nation. A Marxist controversy. In: Michael Lowy: internationalism and nationalism. Critical essays on Marxism and " national question ". New ISP - Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-929008-26-2, pp. 143-161.
  • Auschwitz think. The intellectuals and the Shoah. From the French by Helmut Dahmer, Hamburger Edition 2000, ISBN 3-930908-57-3.
  • After Auschwitz. The Left and the working up of the Nazi genocide. From the French by Paul B. Kleiser and Ulla Varchmin, New ISP Publishing, 2000, ISBN 3-929008 -22- X.
  • Modern and violence. A European Genealogy of Nazi terror. From the French by Paul B. Kleiser, New ISP Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-89900-106-0.
  • A friendship in exile. The correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin. In: jour fixe initiative berlin (ed.): lines of flight of exile. Munster 2004, ISBN 3-89771-431-0.
  • Instructions for use of the past. History, memory, politics. Munster 2007, ISBN 978-3-89771-470-0.
  • Under the spell of violence. The European Civil War 1914-1945, settlers, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-88680-885-8.

Texts on the Web

  • Paul Celan et la poésie de la destruction. From: L' Histoire déchirée. Essai sur Auschwitz et les intellectuels.

Reviews

  • Manfred Behrend: Marxism, " destructive Enlightenment" and Shoa. Review of: Enzo Traverso: After Auschwitz. The Left and the working up of the Nazi genocide.
  • Fabian Kettner: The witnesses for the prosecution. Traditions in Enzo Traverso's social criticism. Review of: Enzo Traverso: After Auschwitz.
  • Ernst Piper: The short century of violence. Review of: Enzo Traverso: The Curse of violence. The European Civil War 1914-1945 ( accessed on May 2, 2010).
  • Michael Wildt: E. Traverso: The European Civil War 1914-1945 Review of: Enzo Traverso: The Curse of violence. The European Civil War 1914-1945.
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