Enzo Traverso
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 370759 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Enzo Traverso |
| PRENOMES | Enzo |
| SOBRENOME | Traverso |
| ASSINATURA | TRAVERSO E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7557-8235 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Cruzando fronteras. Para una epistemología del extranjero
El presente artículo recoge la intervención realizada por Enzo Traverso en ocasión del recibimiento del Doctorado Honoris Causa, entregado por la Universidad Nacional de La Plata el 7 de noviembre de 2025. El texto ofrece, por un lado, una referencia al rol que jugó en el despliegue de las ideas de Traverso el vínculo estrecho con nuestra Universidad y, por el otro, una reflexión en torno a las múltiples dimensiones que incluye la experiencia del…
Masses and Man
Le massacre de Gaza sape la culture de la démocratie
Between the composer and the performer there is a chain of translations, to which the audience is invited. The performer must actually make the work his own. The aesthetic dialogue is based on this condition of hospitality. The works are imperfect translations, an ever-renewed work, that of a lifetime
Auschwitz and Hiroshima
Widely translated into several Western languages (with the exception of English), Günther Anders (1902–92) has, in the last two decades, attained the status of a classic figure within twentieth-century critical thought, close to Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School without ever becoming one of its members. This article analyses his intellectual trajectory and his body of work, which includes many articles, essays, short stories, and even a no…
Ce qui vient, c'est l'inconnu
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. In volume II, leading scholars in their fields explore the dynamics of nationhood and nationalism's interactions…
Marxism and the National Question
Marx’s thought on nationhood emerged from the cosmopolitan legacy of the “radical Enlightenment.” It took shape in the crucible of European nationalisms, the persistence of dynastic multinational empires, and the appearance of socialism as a new political actor. 1 In 1848, the national question was deeply intermingled with the question of class. As a minority current of socialism, at least until the end of the nineteenth century, Marxism promoted…
Imágenes e Historia cultural
Este texto a dos manos integra en un solo espacio el debate que sostuvieron dos figuras académicas indiscutibles, Georges Didi-Huberman, historiador del arte, y Enzo Traverso, historiador, en la revista digital francesa AOC, entre los meses de mayo y octubre de 2022. En un intercambio epistolar público, Didi-Huberman comienza la discusión sobre un breve comentario que Traverso incluye en su libro Revolution. An Intellectual History (2021), que ha…
Longing for the Sonderweg
The highly controversial idea of Sonderweg, a special path to modernity, is frequently invoked to depict the history of Germany in the twentieth century. Initially claimed by nationalists as an exceptionalism proudly opposed to the development of both France and the United Kingdom, the German Sonderweg became a stigma after 1945, the mark of the wrong turn that had led to National Socialism. Beyond these debates, the thought remains that, under t…
Singular Pasts
Singular Pasts offers a critical account of the emergence of authorial subjectivity in historical writing, scrutinizing both its achievements and its shortcomings. Enzo Traverso considers a group of contemporary historians who reveal their emotional ties to their subjects and give their writing a literary flavor.
L'humanisme face aux crimes du 20 e siècle
Relações Perigosas”
Enzo Traveso analisa a relação entre Walter Benjamin e Carl Schmitt no contexto da crise europeia dos anos 1930. Benjamin consagrou a Schmitt algumas passagens de seu livro sobre o drama barroco alemão (1928) e em 1930 escreveu a ele uma carta em que enfatizou suas afinidades com o teórico da ditadura e do decisionismo. Schmitt não respondeu a carta, mas a conservou e esta tornou-se a base de suas discussões com o filósofo judeu-alemão Jakob Taub…
A nna G rillini . La guerra in testa
Anna Grillini’s La guerra in testa: Esperienze e trauma di civli, profughi e soldati nel manicomio di Pergine Valusugana, 1909–1924 is a remarkable investigation into a peculiar and usually neglected moment in the history of Austrian and Italian psychiatry: the troubled and violent changes experienced by the small mental hospital of Pergine Valsugana, in Southern Tyrol, during the Great War. Created in 1882 as an extension of the Hall Psychiatric…
The Jewish Question
In The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate, Enzo Traverso explores the causes and the forms of the encounter that took place, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the Holocaust, between the intelligentsia of a cosmopolitan minority and the most radical ideological current of Western modernity. From Karl Marx to the Frankfurt School, the 'Jewish Question' — to a set of problems related to emancipation and anti-Semitism, cultural a…
Jean Améry. Entre la razón crítica y la desesperanza
Este artículo indaga sobre la escritura de Jean Améry (Austria, 1912-1978), sobreviviente de Auschwitz, quien desde la ficción o el ensayo autorreferencial exploró la catástrofe del mundo contemporáneo. Los elementos autobiográficos constituyen la materia real que Améry convirtió en un “ensayo contemplativo”. Él no creía en las virtudes terapéuticas de la memoria, sino en la propia experiencia y el resentimiento —este último entendido a partir de…
New Faces of Fascism
Do Fascismo ao Pós-Fascismo
Este artigo analisa a complexa relação entre o fascismo histórico e o que o autor denomina de "pós-fascismo". Traverso argumenta que, embora o fascismo clássico do século XX tenha desaparecido, certos elementos de sua ideologia e prática política persistem e se manifestam em novas formas no cenário contemporâneo. O autor explora como temas como nacionalismo, xenofobia, autoritarismo e a rejeição da democracia liberal, característicos do fascismo,…
O Marxismo Libertário De Michael Löwy
Neste ensaio, originalmente apresentado como conferência, Enzo Traverso analisa a trajetória intelectual de Michael Löwy, desde seus primeiros trabalhos sobre Marx, Lukács e Goldmann até suas reflexões sobre Benjamin e o romantismo. Traverso aplica o método de Löwy para compreender os autores que ele estudou e argumenta que, apesar de nascido no Brasil, Löwy pode ser considerado um "intelectual francês que combina e supera duas tradições que marc…
Mélancolie de gauche
Depuis le XIXe siècle, les révolutions ont toujours affiché une prescription mémorielle : conserver le souvenir des expériences passées pour les léguer au futur. C’était une mémoire « stratégique », nourrie d’espérance. En ce début de XXIe siècle, cette dialectique entre passé et futur s’est brisée et le monde s’est enfermé dans le présent. La chute du communisme n’a pas seulement enterré, une fois pour toutes, la téléologie naïve des « lendemain…
Jewish Question
"In The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate, Enzo Traverso explores the reasons and the forms of the encounter that took place, from the middle of the 19th century to the Holocaust, between the intelligentsia of a cosmopolitan minority and the most radical ideological current of Western modernity. From Karl Marx to the Frankfurt School, the "Jewish Question"--A set of problems related to emancipation and anti-Semitism, cultural assimilat…
The Curious Humanist
Siegfried Kracauer belongs to an outstanding constellation of Jewish German scholars that emigrated to New York during World War II and effected a gigantic cultural transfer from one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other, transforming the postwar American scientific and intellectual landscape. This existential experience significantly changed his style of thought and writing: he abandoned his native German language and replaced the ironic elega…
Imágenes melancólicas. El cine de las revoluciones vencidas
En este artículo se explora aquello que Antoine de Baecque llamó la historia-cámara, es decir, “una forma cinematográfica de la historia”. Observaremos lo que el cine nos desvela, más allá de los datos duros y las fuentes verificables de la historiografía, acerca del fin de la esperanza comunista, a partir de películas que considero barómetros de la conciencia de izquierda, como reveladores de sus dilemas y sus cambios
Imágenes melancólicas. El cine de las revoluciones vencidas
En este artículo se explora aquello que Antoine de Baecque llamó la historia-cá- mara, es decir, “una forma cinematográfica de la historia”. Observaremos lo que el cine nos desvela, más allá de los datos duros y las fuentes verificables de la historiografía, acerca del fin de la esperanza comunista, a partir de películas que considero barómetros de la conciencia de izquierda, como reveladores de sus dile- mas y sus cambios
Confronting Defeat
Quoting a text on Tocqueville written by Carl Schmitt in 1946, Reinhart Koselleck hypothesized about the epistemological advantage of being vanquished in writing history. This essay analyzes Schmitt's intellectual and political positions in reaction to three successive defeats: the collapse of the German Empire in 1918; the end of the Weimar Republic in 1933; and the overthrow of the Third Reich in 1945. Schmitt was a German nationalist and, at l…
The New Faces of Fascism
What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to the years between the two world wars and envisions a dark landscape of violence, dictatorships, and genocide. These images spontaneously surface in the face of the rise of radical right, racism, xenophobia, islamophobia and terrorism, the last of which is often depicted as a form of Islamic Beyond some superficial analogies, h…
The Marxists and the Jewish Question
Totalitarianism Between History and Theory
Born in Italy at the beginning of the 1920s, the concept of totalitarianism experienced an uninterrupted succession of metamorphoses and changes throughout the twentieth century, until its last rebirth after September 11, 2001, when it was remobilized in the struggle against Islamic terrorism. It is an astonishingly plastic, resilient, and inevitably ambiguous concept, insofar as it merges both politics and scholarship, and belongs, with a differ…
L'Europe et ses mémoires. Trois perspectives croisées
A la différence des deux siècles qui l'ont précédé marqués par l'impact de la Révolution française et de la Révolution russe le 21e siècle s'ouvre sous le signe d'une éclipse des utopies. La disparition d'un « horizon d'attente » visible engendre une mémoire saturée du 20e siècle comme époque de la violence, des totalitarismes et des génocides, symbolisée par la figure de la victime. Analysant les commémorations du 8 mai 1945 date anniversa…
Longing for the Sonderweg
The highly controversial idea of Sonderweg, a special path to modernity, is frequently invoked to depict the history of Germany in the twentieth century. Initially claimed by nationalists as an exceptionalism proudly opposed to the development of both France and the United Kingdom, the German Sonderweg became a stigma after 1945, the mark of the wrong turn that had led to National Socialism. Beyond these debates, the thought remains that, under t…
Do Fascismo ao Pós-Fascismo
Este artigo analisa a complexa relação entre o fascismo histórico e o que o autor denomina de "pós-fascismo". Traverso argumenta que, embora o fascismo clássico do século XX tenha desaparecido, certos elementos de sua ideologia e prática política persistem e se manifestam em novas formas no cenário contemporâneo. O autor explora como temas como nacionalismo, xenofobia, autoritarismo e a rejeição da democracia liberal, característicos do fascismo,…
Interpreting Fascism
Imágenes e Historia cultural
Este texto a dos manos integra en un solo espacio el debate que sostuvieron dos figuras académicas indiscutibles, Georges Didi-Huberman, historiador del arte, y Enzo Traverso, historiador, en la revista digital francesa AOC, entre los meses de mayo y octubre de 2022. En un intercambio epistolar público, Didi-Huberman comienza la discusión sobre un breve comentario que Traverso incluye en su libro Revolution. An Intellectual History (2021), que ha…
The Furies
Adorno et Benjamin une correspondance à minuit dans le siecle
Bohemia, Exile and Revolution
Le totalitarisme. Histoire et apories d'un concept
Enzo Traverso, Totalitarianism : History and Contradictions of a Concept The concept of totalitarianism seems both inevitable and unusable because it concerns only a typology of power relations. The problem is that it cannot explicate either the genesis or the history of these structural relationships. If historians and sociologists cannot ignor the notion, they also cannot accept its limitations. Now that the ideological and political connotatio…
The "German-Jewish Symbiosis" Revisited
The Marxist Approach to the National Question
HISTORIANS (MARXIST OR NOT) emphasize the incompleteness and limitations of Marx' and Engels' • writings on the national question. The critique of Engels' theory of nations without formulated for the first time at the beginning of this century by Otto Bauer in his monumental Die Nationalitatenfrage und die Sozialdemokratie (1907) and developed in a more systematic and rigorous by the Ukrainian Marxist historian Roman Rosdolsky after the Second Wo…
The Marxist Approach to the National Question
HISTORIANS (MARXIST OR NOT) emphasize the incompleteness and limitations of Marx' and Engels' • writings on the national question. The critique of Engels' theory of nations without formulated for the first time at the beginning of this century by Otto Bauer in his monumental Die Nationalitatenfrage und die Sozialdemokratie (1907) and developed in a more systematic and rigorous by the Ukrainian Marxist historian Roman Rosdolsky after the Second Wo…
Max Weber. Sur le socialisme et le marxisme
Les marxistes et la question juive
Le « prophète muet
Auschwitz et Hiroshima
The Jews and Germany. From the "Judeo-German Symbiosis" to the Memory of Auschwitz
The Jews and Germany debunks a modern myth: that once upon a time, there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the best in each other. Enzo Traverso argues that to the contrary, the attainments of Jews in the German-speaking world were due to the Jews aspiring to be German, with little help from and often against the open hostility of Germans. As the Holocaust proved in murder and theft, German Jews could never b…
Les Juifs et la culture allemande. Le problème des générations intellectuelles
Dans le sillage de la sociologie de Karl Mannheim, l’auteur se propose d’appliquer à l’histoire de la culture judéo-allemande le concept de génération intellectuelle, non pas défini à partir d’une succession de classes d’âge, mais plutôt articulé autour de différents tournants historiques jouant le rôle d’événements fondateurs. Il distingue ainsi, dans la longue durée, six ou sept générations intellectuelles qui couvrent une période d’environ un …
The Marxists and the Jewish Question
La Shoah, les historiens et l'usage public de l'Histoire. À propos de l'affaire Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Enzo Traverso, The Holocaust, Historians and the Public Use of History : on the Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Affair Daniel Goldhagen's book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, presents the Nazis as representing a modern Germany totally impregnated with "eliminationist" antisemitism and in favor of genocide. This, however, is an abusive simplification which neglects strong resistance to antisemitism on the part of a large part of the German population. Beyo…
The "German-Jewish Symbiosis" Revisited
Les Juifs et l'Allemagne. De la "symbiose judeoallemande" a la memoire d'Auschwitz
Les intellectuels et l'antifascisme. Pour une historisation critique
Le totalitarisme. Histoire et apories d'un concept
Enzo Traverso, Totalitarianism : History and Contradictions of a Concept The concept of totalitarianism seems both inevitable and unusable because it concerns only a typology of power relations. The problem is that it cannot explicate either the genesis or the history of these structural relationships. If historians and sociologists cannot ignor the notion, they also cannot accept its limitations. Now that the ideological and political connotatio…
Understanding The Nazi Genocide
Auschwitz, Marx and the 20th century on the edge of understanding - Ernest Mandel and Gunther Anders the debt - the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
L'aveuglement des clercs
The Contract of Mutual Indifference
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The Contract of Mutual Indifference
De l'anticommunisme
TRAVERSO Le phnomne a t maintes fois soulign : au lieu d'amorcer une historisation du XX e sicle dpassionne et dsidologise , la chute de l'URSS et la fin de la guerre froide ont t l'origine d'une nouvelle vague anticommuniste.Un anticommunisme militant , combatif, d'autant plus paradoxal que son adversaire a cess d'exister.Paris en est la capitale.Il a connu ses moments forts avec la parution du Pass d'une illusion de Franois Furet, en 1995, et d…
Bohemia, Exile and Revolution
Cosmopolitisme et transferts culturels
Durant le XIXe siècle, la montée socio-économique et l'assimilation culturelle des Juifs allemands engendrent deux tendances contradictoires: d'un côté, leur volonté d'intégration dans la nation allemande et, de l'autre, leur cosmopolitisme, lié à leur position, au centre d'un réseau socio-économique et d'un vaste mouvement migratoire de dimension continentale. Les Juifs contribuent ainsi à l'essor d'une idée culturelle de Mitteleuropa opposée à …
The Holocaust Industry. Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering Norman Finkelstein
Adorno et Benjamin une correspondance à minuit dans le siecle
To brush against the grain
This article analyses the specific contribution of the German‐Jewish exiles to the interpretation of the Holocaust during and immediately after the Second World War. Focusing on the political philosophies of Hannah Arendt, Günther Anders, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, it underlines their immediate reaction to an event practically ignored by the great majority of Western observers during the 1940s and 1950s. This silence was grounded on many …
Auschwitz, Marx Y El Siglo Xx
En el presente artículo se plantea la relación interna entre modernidad y las formas de violencia de destrucción total, teniendo como eje reflexivo el exterminio nazi de judíos en Auschwitz. Se argumenta cómo la racionalidad instrumental, la homogeneización y la serialización de la burocracia y de la fábrica son aspectos de la modernidad capitalista que están presentes en la elaboración de la "muerte reificada" como subjetividad específicamente m…
Siegfried Kracauer
Le parcours de vie et de pensée de Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) a été profondément marqué par tous les bouleversements du XXe siècle. Figure de premier plan de la culture de Weimar lorsqu'il dirigeait les pages culturelles du Frankfurter Zeitung, il incarna, à partir de 1933, le destin de l'intelligentsia judéo-allemande en exil, dans sa misère matérielle comme dans sa grandeur spirituelle. Son oeuvre apparaît aujourd'hui sous le signe d'une va…
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