Historian Enzo Traverso (1957, Piedmont) studied at the University of Genoa. He was a professor at the University of Picardy and the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences in Paris. He teaches modern European history at Cornell University, New York.
He is one of the most important historians of ideas.
Among his works is Siegfried Krakauer. Itinerary of an intellectual nomad [Itinerario de un intelectual nómada] (1994), Ripped History [La historia desgarrada]. Essay on Auschwitz and the intellectuals (2001), Totalitarianism. History of a debate (2001), Nazi violence. A genealogy (2003), Marxists and the Jewish question. History of a debate (2003), Cosmopolis. Figures of the German-Jewish exile [Figuras del exilio judeo-alemán] (2004), Jews and Germany. Essay on Jewish-German symbiosis (2005), The Past. Instructions for use. History, memory, politics (2005), Through blood and fire. European Civil War 1914-1945 (2007), History as a battlefield. Interpreting 20th century violence (2011), Where are the intellectuals? (2013), The End of Jewish modernity: the history of a conservative shift (2013) and Melancolía de la Izquierda [Melancholy of the Left] (2019).
