Revolution: An Intellectual History

Cover Page
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Abbreviations
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Locomotives of History
	The Railway Age
	Secularization and Temporalization
	Conceptualizing Revolution
	Energy and Labour Power
	‘Máquinas Locas’
	Armoured Trains
	The End of a Myth
Chapter 2: Revolutionary Bodies
	Insurgent Bodies
	Animalized Bodies
	The People’s Two Bodies
	Sovereign Body
	Immortality
	Regeneration
	Liberated Bodies
	Productive Bodies
Chapter 3: Concepts, Symbols, Realms of Memory
	Fixing a Paradigm
	Counterrevolution
	Katechon
	Iconoclasm
	Symbols
	Thought-Images: ‘Man at the Crossroads’
Chapter 4: The Revolutionary Intellectual, 1848–1945
	Historical Boundaries
	National Contexts
	Physiognomies
	Bohemians and Déclassés
	Maps I: West
	Maps II: Colonial World
	Conscious Pariahs
	Conservative Anti-Intellectualism
	‘Fellow Travellers’
	Thomas Mann’s Allegories
	Comintern Intellectuals
	Conclusion: An Ideal-Type
	Tables
Chapter 5: Between Freedom and Liberation
	Genealogies
	Representations
	Ontology
	Foucault, Arendt and Fanon
	Freedom, Bread and Roses
	Liberation of Time
	Benjamin’s Messianic Time
Chapter 6: Historicizing Communism
	Periodization
	Faces of Communism
	Revolution
	Regime
	Anticolonialism
	Social-Democratic Communism
	The Heteronyms of Ilio Barontini
	Epilogue
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index