Enzo Traverso  

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"The Holocaust was indeed characterized by an industrial project of extermination; compared to it, other genocides seemed to lack "professionalism". This led authors such as Enzo Traverso to argue in The Origins of Nazi Violence that Auschwitz was "an authentic product of Western civilization". Beginning his book with a description of the guillotine, which according to him marks the entry of the Industrial Revolution into capital punishment, and writes: "Through an irony of history, the theories of Frederick Taylor" (taylorism) were applied by a totalitarian system to serve "not production, but extermination." (see also Heidegger's comments). In the wake of Hannah Arendt, Traverso describes the colonial domination during the New Imperialism period through "rational organization", which lead in a number of cases to extermination. However, this argument, which insists on the industrialization and technical rationality through which the Holocaust itself was carried out (the organization of trains, technical details, etc. — see Adolf Eichmann's bureaucratic work), was in turn opposed by other people. These point out that the 1994 Rwandan genocide only used machetes." --Sholem Stein

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Enzo Traverso (born 14 October 1957 in Gavi, Piedmont region, Italy) is an Italian historian who has written on issues relating to the Holocaust and totalitarianism. After living and working in France for over 20 years, he is currently the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University.

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He writes mainly in French.


Original works

  • Les Marxistes et la question juive, La Brèche-PEC, Montreuil, 1990.
  • Les Juifs et l'Allemagne, de la symbiose judéo-allemande à la mémoire d'Auschwitz, La Découverte, Paris, 1992.
  • Siegfried Kracauer. Itinéraire d’un intellectuel nomade, La Découverte, Paris, 1994.
  • L'Histoire déchirée, essai sur Auschwitz et les intellectuels, Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 1997.
  • Pour une critique de la barbarie moderne : écrits sur l'histoire des Juifs et l'antisémitisme, Éditions Page deux (Cahiers libres), Lausanne, 2000.
  • Le Totalitarisme : Le XXe siècle en débat, 2001.
  • La Violence nazie : Essai de généalogie historique, 2002, La Fabrique, Paris.
  • La Pensée dispersée : Figures de l'exil judéo-allemand, 2004.
  • Le Passé, mode d'emploi : Histoire, mémoire, politique, 2005, La Fabrique, Paris.
  • À Feu et à sang : De la guerre civile européenne, 1914-1945, Stock, Paris, 2007.
  • L'histoire comme champ de bataille : Interpréter les violences du XXe siècle, La Découverte, Paris, 2011.
  • La fin de la modernité juive : Histoire d'un tournant conservateur, La Découverte, Paris, 2013.
  • Mélancolie de gauche : La force d’une tradition cachée (XIXe-XXIe siècle), La Découverte, Paris, 2016.

English translations

  • The End of Jewish Modernity, Pluto Press, London, 2016, translated by David Fernbach.
  • Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914–1945, Verso, 2016
  • The Origins of Nazi Violence, New Press, 2003, translated by Janet Lloyd.
  • Understanding the Nazi Genocide: Marxism after Auschwitz, Pluto Press, London, 1999, translated by Peter Drucker.
  • The Jews & Germany: From the "Judeo-German Symbiosis" to the Memory of Auschwitz, U. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1995, translated by Daniel Weissbort.
  • The Marxists and the Jewish question. The history of a Debate (1843-1943), Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1994, translated by Bernard Gibbons, Template:ISBN
  • Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (New Directions in Critical Theory), Columbia University Press; 2nd Revised ed., 2017, Template:ISBN.

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