{"product_id":"critique-of-modern-barbarism","title":"Critique Of Modern Barbarism","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of essays, Enzo Traverso examines the relationships between anti-Semitism, modernity and the Holocaust. The different parts of the book analyse multiple dimensions of the destruction of the European Jews, debates over historical memory and left-wing debates on the nature of anti-Semitism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and the heterodox Marxism of a thinker like Walter Benjamin, Traverso argues that after Auschwitz, critical thought needs to reconsider the notion of progress as such.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnzo Traverso is the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. His publications include:\u003cem\u003e The New Faces of Fascism, Populism and the Far Right, \u003c\/em\u003eVerso, 2019; \u003cem\u003eLeft-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory\u003c\/em\u003e, Columbia University Press, 2017, \u003cem\u003eThe End of Jewish Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e, Pluto Press, 2016; \u003cem\u003eFire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914–1945\u003c\/em\u003e, Verso, 2016; \u003cem\u003eThe Origins of Nazi Violence\u003c\/em\u003e, New Press, 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57554876465534,"sku":"NW9780902869820","price":16.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780902869820.jpg?v=1781594500","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/critique-of-modern-barbarism","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}