Spartakus: The Symbology of Revolt - Paperback
by Furio Jesi
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Furio Jesi, Alberto Toscano, Andrea CavallettiSeries:Italian ListPublish date:2024-01-05Pages:180
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Seagull BooksISBN-13:9781803093628ISBN-10:1803093625UPC:9781803093628Book Category:Philosophy, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, Europe, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:8.50 x 5.10 x 3.40 inchesWeight:3.3532Product ID:SCE6YSAFEN
A crucial text at the intersection of history and philosophy in twentieth-century Italy. On December 29, 1918, the Spartakus League, a Marxist revolutionary movement, rose up in Germany calling for an end to class rule by the bourgeoisie. Massive demonstrations followed and more than 500,000 Berliners took to the streets in January--only to be crushed by police and anticommunist paramilitary troops. Several leaders of the Spartakus League were killed and the revolt was quashed. Through a detailed reconstruction of the events of that bloody winter, historian and critic Furio Jesi recasts our understanding of a foundational political difference--revolt or revolution? Drawing on a deep reserve of literary sources like Brecht, Eliade, Dostoyevsky, and Mann, Jesi outlines a uniquely incisive phenomenology of revolt that distinguishes between the purposeful historical temporality of revolution and the suspension of time that marks a revolt. This edition also includes an essay on the politics of time and revolution by Rosa Luxemburg, a founding leader of the Spartakus League.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Seagull BooksISBN-13:9781803093628ISBN-10:1803093625UPC:9781803093628Book Category:Philosophy, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, Europe, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:8.50 x 5.10 x 3.40 inchesWeight:3.3532Product ID:SCE6YSAFEN
Furio Jesi (1941-80) was an Egyptologist, historian of religions, literary critic, and pioneering theorist on the role of myth in literature, politics, and culture. Alberto Toscano teaches in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of Fanaticism and The Theatre of Production, and the translator of several books by Alain Badiou.
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