War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Domenico Losurdo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781686165 ISBN 13: 9781781686164

Publisher: Verso Books, 2015

Synopsis

War and Revolution is an original re-reading of contemporary history, linking trends of historical revisionism in historiography to an investigation of fundamental philosophical and political categories, such as international civil war, revolution, totalitarianism, and genocide. Losurdo begins from the revisionist theses of Ernst Nolte on the Holocaust and of François Furet on the French Revolution, and ends with the Anglophone imperial revivalists Paul Johnson and Niall Ferguson. Losurdo captivates the reader with his tour de force of the history of modern revolt, giving a new perspective on comparisons between the English, American, French and twentieth-century revolutions.

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Review

“A brilliant exercise in unmasking liberal pretensions, surveying over three centuries with magisterial command of the sources.”
– Financial Times (in priase of Liberalism: A Counter-History)

“Stimulatingly uncovers the contradictions of an ideology that is much too self-righteously invoked.”
– Pankaj Mishra (in priase of Liberalism: A Counter-History), Guardian

“A book of wide reference and real erudition.”
– Times Literary Supplement (in priase of Liberalism: A Counter-History)

“The book is a historically grounded, very accessible critique of liberalism, complementing a growing literature critical of liberalism.”
– Choice (in priase of Liberalism: A Counter-History)

About the Author

Domenico Losurdo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Urbino, Italy. He is the author of many books in Italian, German, French and Spanish. In English he has published Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns, Heidegger and the Ideology of War, and Liberalism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1781686165
• ISBN 13: 9781781686164
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256