Name: The Origins of Nazi Violence
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Author: Enzo Traverso
ISBN: 9781565847880

Type

Physical Book

Author

Enzo Traverso

Publisher

The New Press

Year

2003

Language

English

Pages

200

Format

Hardcover

Weight

0.85

ISBN

1565847881

ISBN13

9781565847880

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Origins of Nazi Violence "

In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt’s seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism, innumerable historians have detailed the history of the Nazi years. Now, in a brilliant synthesis of this work, Enzo Traverso situates the extermination camps as the final, terrible moment in European modernity’s industrialization of killing and dehumanization of death. Traverso upends the conventional presentation of the Holocaust as an inexplicable anomaly, navigating an excess of antecedents both technical and cultural. Deftly tracing a complex lineage—the guillotine and machine gun, the prison and assembly line, as well as widespread ideologies of racial supremacy and colonial expansion—Traverso reveals that the ideas that coalesced at Auschwitz came from Europe’s mainstream and not its margins.

Enzo Traverso

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Born in Italy, Enzo Traverso completed his PhD in France, where he was a professor at the University of Picardy for many years. Since 2013, he is Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. An internationally renowned author, he currently holds the place of historiographical preeminence once occupied by E. P. Thompson or Eric Hobsbawm. His latest publications, in Spanish, are El totalitarismo. Historia de un debate (2001), La violencia nazi. Una genealogía europea (2002), El pasado, instrucciones de uso. Historia, memoria, política (2007), ¿Qué fue de los intelectuales? (2009), A sangre y fuego. De la guerra civil europea (1914-1945) (2009), La historia desgarrada. Ensayo sobre Auschwitz y los intelectuales (2011), La historia como campo de batalla. Interpretar las violencias del siglo xx (2012), El final de la modernidad judía. Historia de un giro conservador (2013), Las nuevas caras de la derecha (2018), Melancolía de la izquierda. Después de las utopías (2019), Pasados singulares: El «yo» en la escritura de la Historia (2022) and La cuestión judía. Historia de un debate marxista (2023). At Akal, he published Revolución. Una historia intelectual (2022)

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