Critique of Modern Barbarism

<p>In 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.</p><p>Inspired 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.</p><p>Enzo Traverso is the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. His publications include:<em> The New Faces of Fascism Populism and the Far Right </em>Verso 2019; <em>Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism History and Memory</em> Columbia University Press 2017 <em>The End of Jewish Modernity</em> Pluto Press 2016; <em>Fire and Blood: The European Civil War 1914–1945</em> Verso 2016; <em>The Origins of Nazi Violence</em> New Press 2003.</p>