Enzo Traverso

Title

Enzo Traverso

Birth Date

1957

Birthplace

Italy

Primary Sources

Traverso, E. (2024) Gaza Faces History (W. Wood, Trans.). Other Press. https://otherpress.com/product/gaza-faces-history-9781635425543/

Traverso, E. (2021). Revolution: An Intellectual History. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2783-revolution?srsltid=AfmBOorq5poL8RKGSvNZEERTRWV0O9VKrjEIuf2xmo05cAwvVmGA4-SE

Traverso, E. (2017) Historicizing Communism: A Twentieth-Century Chameleon. South Atlantic Quarterly, 116(4), 763-780. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-4234994

Traverso, E. (2016). The End of Jewish Modernity. Pluto Books.

Traverso, E. (2016). Left-wing melancholia: Marxism, history, and memory. Columbia University Press. 

Traverso, E. (2016). Antifascism between Collective Memory and Historical Revisions. In H. García, M. Yusta, X. Tabet, & C. Clímaco (Eds.), Rethinking Antifascism: History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present (1st ed., pp. 321–338). Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvpj7j84.21

Traverso, E. (2003). The Origins of Nazi Violence. The New Press.

Secondary Sources

Bartolini, G. (2025). Studying Fascism transculturally: Italian scholarship in the international arena. Modern Italy, 30(2), 247–255. https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2024.53

Lebovic, N. (2023). Enzo Traverso, Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory. Psychoanalysis & History, 25(2), 237–239. https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2023.0473

Extra Resources

Feroz, E. (2025, January 25). Germany's Reckoning With the Past Is No Longer a Model: An interview with Enzo Traverso. Jacobin. Accessed September 24, 2025. https://jacobin.com/2025/01/germany-holocaust-antisemitism-islamophobia-gaza

Confavreux, J., & Traverso, E. (2022, May 26). "The situation is not desperate". Verso. Accessed September 12, 2022. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5361-the-situation-is-not-desperate

Traverso, E., & Butler, J. (2016, August 14). Presentism: The Politics of Neoliberalism: Lecture with introduction by Judith Butler. The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry. SoundCloud. Accessed January 12, 2023.
https://soundcloud.com/ciciucberkeley/presentism-the-politics-of-memory-in-the-age-of-neoliberalism-enzo-traverso-91416

Collection

Europe

Citation

“Enzo Traverso,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/777.

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