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PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press

ISBN-100299347648

ISBN-139780299347642

eBay Product ID (ePID)23064623160

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Number of Pages382 Pages

Publication NameMasses and Man : Nationalist and Fascist Perceptions of Reality

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

SubjectPolitical Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, World, Europe / General, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, History

AuthorGeorge L. Mosse

SeriesThe Collected Works of George L. Mosse Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight19 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2023-043804

Dewey Edition19

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal320.54094

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments A Critical Introduction by Enzo Traverso Introduction: Nationalism and Human Perceptions PART I 1. Literature and Society in Germany 2. What Germans Really Read 3. Death, Time, and History: Völkisch Utopia and Its Transcendence 4. The Poet and the Exercise of Political Power: Gabriele D'Annunzio 5. Caesarism, Circuses, and Monuments 6. The French Right and the Working Classes: Les Jaunes 7. The Heritage of Socialist Humanism PART II 8. Toward a General Theory of Fascism 9. The Occult Origins of National Socialism 10. Nazi Polemical Theater: The Kampfbuhne 11. Fascism and the Avant-Garde PART III 12. The Secularization of Jewish Theology 13. The Jews and the German War Experience, 1914-1918 14. German Socialists and the Jewish Question in the Weimar Republic Notes Index

SynopsisIn fourteen essays that speak to the full breadth of George L. Mosse's intellectual horizons and scholarly legacy, Masses and Man explores radical nationalism, fascism, and Jewish modernity in twentieth-century Europe. Breaking from the conventions of historical analysis, Mosse shows that "secular religions" like fascism cannot be understood only as the products of socioeconomic or intellectual histories but rather must be approached first and foremost as cultural phenomena. Masses and Man comprises three parts. The first lays out a cultural history of nationalism, essentially the first of its kind, emphasizing the importance of sacred expressions like myths, symbols, and rituals as appropriated in a political context. The second zeroes in on fascism's most dramatic irruptions in European history in the rise of Italian Fascism and the Nazi Party in Germany, elucidating these as not just political movements but also cultural and even aesthetic ones. The third part considers nationalism and fascism from the particular standpoint of German Jews. Taken in full, the volume offers an eloquent summation of Mosse's groundbreaking insights into European nationalism, fascism, and Jewish history in the twentieth century. A new critical introduction by Enzo Traverso helpfully situates Mosse's work in context and exposes the many ways in which Masses and Man, first published in 1980, remains relevant today., In fourteen essays that speak to the full breadth of George L. Mosse's intellectual horizons and scholarly legacy, Masses and Man explores radical nationalism, fascism, and Jewish modernity in twentieth-century Europe. Breaking from the conventions of historical analysis, Mosse shows that "secular religions" like fascism cannot be understood only ......, In fourteen essays that speak to the full breadth of George L. Mosse's intellectual horizons and scholarly legacy, Masses and Man explores radical nationalism, fascism, and Jewish modernity in twentieth-century Europe. Breaking from the conventions of historical analysis, Mosse shows that "secular religions" like fascism cannot be understood only as the products of socioeconomic or intellectual histories but rather must be approached first and foremost as cultural phenomena. Masses and Man comprises three parts. The first lays out a cultural history of nationalism, essentially the first of its kind, emphasizing the importance of sacred expressions like myths, symbols, and rituals as appropriated in a political context. The second zeroes in on fascism's most dramatic irruptions in European history in the rise of Italian Fascism and the Nazi Party in Germany, elucidating these as not just political movements but also cultural and even aesthetic ones. The third part considers nationalism and fascism from the particular standpoint of German Jews. Taken in full, the volume offers an eloquent summation of Mosse's groundbreaking insights into European nationalism, fascism, and Jewish history in the twentieth century. A new critical introduction by Enzo Traverso helpfully situates Mosse's work in context and exposes the many ways in which Masses and Man , first published in 1980, remains relevant today.

LC Classification NumberD363.M65 2024