George L. Mosse Livres

La 4e de couverture indique : "En 1914, une génération s'engagea dans la guerre pour ce qu'elle croyait être une cause juste. Quatre ans de conflit entraînèrent la mort de dix millions d'hommes et ébranlèrent, en profondeur, les sociétés et les régimes européens. Une fois la paix retrouvée, les formes de la commémoration occultèrent le souvenir de ce carnage ; en Allemagne, en Italie comme dans les pays vainqueurs, afin d'exorciser le traumatisme de la violence, on préféra exalter le martyre des soldats, en sacralisant leur combat. C'est une telle sanctification que George Mosse étudie dans ce livre, à travers ce qu'il nomme le " mythe de la guerre " : la mémoire déformée du combat, le culte quasi religieux du soldat qu'évoquent les monuments aux morts ou les cartes postales. L'auteur montre aussi comment, par un étrange processus destiné à apprivoiser la mort, la guerre devint un objet de commerce : jeux pour enfants, bibelots, souvenirs humoristiques ne traduisaient-ils pas ce besoin de banaliser l'horreur ? Mais exorcisée ou banalisée, l'expérience de la mort massive ne fut pas sans entamer la valeur de l'existence humaine, rendant alors concevable la violence totalitaire. Le mythe de la guerre fut exploité par les partis extrémistes ; il nourrit le nationalisme de revanche. De ce processus de " brutalisation ", le nazisme est directement issu."

Exploring the interplay of rationalism and Romanticism, this cultural history delves into the forces shaping modern Europe. George L. Mosse examines various societal aspects, including nationalism, economics, class identity, religion, and art, highlighting their interconnectedness. The revised edition reinstates original illustrations and includes a critical introduction by Anthony J. Steinhoff, which contextualizes Mosse's work and underscores its ongoing significance. This accessible narrative captures the complexities of European cultural movements throughout history.

Jews were emancipated at a time when high culture was becoming an integral part of German citizenship. German Jews felt a powerful urge to integrate, to find their Jewish substance in German culture and craft an identity as both Germans and Jews. In this volume, based on the 1983 Efroymson Memorial Lectures given at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, George Mosse traces their pursuit of Bildung and German Enlightenment ideals and their efforts to influence German society even at a time when this led to intellectual isolation. Yet out of this German-Jewish dialogue, what had once been part of German culture became a central Jewish heritage.

"Writing about the events of his life through a historian's lens, Mosse gives us a personal history of our century, including his encounters with Carl Jung, Martin Buber, Albert Speer, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick, and many others among the famous and infamous. This is a story told with the clarity, passion, and verve that entranced thousands of Mosse's students and that countless readers have found, and will continue to find, in his many scholarly books."--BOOK JACKET

The culmination of George L. Mosse's groundbreaking work on fascism from its origins through the twentieth century, with a new critical introduction by historian Roger Griffin. The volume covers a broad spectrum of topics related to cultural interpretations of fascism as a means to define and understand it as a popular phenomenon on its own terms.

In his classic study of the idealogical sources of National Socialism, George L. Mosse explores a unique complex of anti-democratic ideas deeply embedded in German history. He traces these currents of thought though the 19th and 20th centuries to show how a peculiarly Germanic ideology became institutionalized in the schools, youth movements, veterans' groups and political parties, and how the "German revolution" called for by the ideology's exponents was transformed by Hitler into an "anti-Jewish revolution," and an effective political program as the Nazis rose to power.

George L. Mosse's extensive analysis of Nazi culture - ground-breaking upon its original publication in 1966 - is now offered to readers of a new generation. Selections from newspapers, novellas, plays, and diaries as well as the public pronouncements of Nazi leaders, churchmen, and professors describe National Socialism in practice and explore what it meant for the average German.

What does it mean to be a man? This text examines the manly stereotype, which stresses courage, moral restraint and athletic comportment, which has become representative of normative modern society. The role of women and the unmanly men in maintaining the stereotype and its erosion is studied.

Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of the great American historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth century. Confronting History describes Mosse's opulent childhood in Weimar Berlin; his exile in Paris and England, including boarding school and study at Cambridge University; his second exile in the U.S. at Haverford, Harvard, Iowa, and Wisconsin; and his extended stays in London and Jerusalem. Mosse discusses being a Jew and his attachment to Israel and Zionism, and he addresses his gayness, his coming out, and his growing scholarly interest in issues of sexuality. This touching memoir—told with the clarity, passion, and verve that entranced thousands of Mosse's students—is guided in part by his belief that "what man is, only history tells" and, most of all, by the importance of finding one's self through the pursuit of truth and through an honest and unflinching analysis of one's place in the context of the times.