Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory

Contents\nIllustrations\nPreface\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction: Haunting Pasts Without Utopias\n	Historical Turn\n	End of Utopias\n	Three Realms of Revolution\n	Three Memories\n	Specters\n1. The Culture of Defeat\n	Shipwreck with Spectator\n	The Vanquished Left\n	Dialectic of Defeat\n	Left-Wing Melancholy\n	The Antinomies of Walter Benjamin\n	The Melancholy Wager\n2. Marxism and Memory\n	Enter Memory, Exit Marx\n	Memory of the Future\n	Myth and Remembrance\n	Futures’ Past\n3. Melancholy Images\n	Film and History\n	The Earth Trembles\n	Against Colonialism\n	Realms of Memory\n	Red Shadows\n	Spanish Ghosts\n	Santiago Remembrance\n	U-topia\n4. Bohemia: Between Melancholy and Revolution\n	Sociology\n	Marx\n	Gustave Courbet\n	Walter Benjamin\n	Leon Trotsky\n	Bohemia and Revolution\n	Movements and Figures\n5. Marxism and the West\n	Zeitgeist\n	Hegelian Sources\n	Empires\n	“Peoples Without History”\n	Violence and Rebellion\n	Tensions\n	Aftermaths\n	A Missed Dialogue\n	Parting Ways\n6. Adorno and Benjamin: Letters at Midnight in the Century\n	Testimonies\n	Constellation\n	Hierarchies\n	Exile\n	Politics\n	Surrealism\n	Mass Culture\n	Redemption\n7. Synchronic Times: Walter Benjamin and Daniel Bensaïd\n	Portbou\n	Paris\n	Rereading Marx\n	Synchronic Times\n	Historicism\n	Revolution\n	Utopia\nNotes\nIndex