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Left in the Past :

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144111324X

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9781441113245

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b571928

Title Proper

Left in the Past :

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[Book]

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Radicalism and the Politics of Nostalgia.

First Statement of Responsibility

Alastair Bonnett

Edition Statement

1st ed

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New York

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2010

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(205 pages)

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Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; The Dilemmas of Radical Nostalgia --; Acknowledging Nostalgia: Four Provocations --; Six Windows onto Radical Nostalgia --; Part One --; Chapter One: Nostalgia and the Left: Denial, Danger and Doubt --; Introduction --; Nostalgia as the Modern Dilemma --; The 'ruthless criticism of all that exists' --; Radical Nostalgia --; 'We have lost something': The End of Utopia --; Nostalgia's Uncertain Return --; Conclusion --; Chapter Two: Nostalgia in and against English Socialism, 1775-1894 --; Introduction --; The Politics of Loss in English Socialist History. From Poorman's Advocate to Proletarian: Thomas Spence and Radical Tradition --; William Morris: Revolutionary Nostalgia in an Age of Progress --; Robert Blatchford: The New Life and Old Traditions of Socialist Fellowship --; Conclusion --; Part Two --; Chapter Three: Worlds We Have Lost: Nostalgia in Anti-colonialism and Post-colonialism --; Introduction --; Anti-colonial Nostalgia: Roots against Empire --; Post-colonial Nostalgias: Yearning for Resistance --; Conclusion --; Chapter Four: The Melancholia of Cosmopolis --; Introduction --; Cosmopolitan Attachments. Renewing Resistance: Nostalgia and Anti-nostalgia in British Radical Anti-racism --; Nostalgia Strikes Back: Paul Gilroy's After Empire --; Conclusion: Sharing Loss --; Part Three --; Chapter Five: Yearning at the Extremes: Situationist Nostalgia --; Introduction --; The Spectacle as Loss --; 'Whoever sees the banks of the Seine sees our grief ': Situationist Nostalgia for Place --; Conclusions and New Departures --; Chapter Six: The Psychogeography of Loss --; Introduction --; Purgatory and Redemption around the M25: The Radical Nostalgia of Iain Sinclair. Radical Re-enchantments: Magic, Preservationism and Nostalgia in Revolutionary Psychogeography --; Conclusion --; Conclusion: Acknowledging Nostalgia --; References --; Index --; A --; B --; C --; D --; E --; F --; G --; H --; I --; J --; K --; L --; M --; N --; O --; P --; R --; S --; T --; U --; V --; W --; Y.

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Alastair Bonnett looks at the role nostalgia plays in the radical imagination to offer a new guide to the history and politics of the left.

Nostalgia -- Political aspects.

Radicalism -- Social aspects.

Socialism -- Social aspects.

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Alastair Bonnett

Alastair Bonnett

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