Left in the Past: Radicalism and the Politics of Nostalgia

by Alastair Bonnett

This book looks at the role nostalgia plays in the radical imagination to offer a new guide to the history and politics of the left. In "Left in the Past", Bonnett re-assesses the place of nostalgia within radical politics and, in doing so, provides a new introduction to the history and politics of the left. Bonnett argues that nostalgia has been a chronic, but repressed, aspect of the socialist imagination. "Left in the Past" is premised on the idea...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826430074
• ISBN13: 9780826430076
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"