Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2023
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-34240-1 (ISBN)

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George L. Mosse (1918-99) was one of the most influential cultural and intellectual historians of modern Europe. In Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination, an international assembly of leading scholars explore Mosse’s enduring methodologies in German studies and modern European cultural history.

George L. Mosse (1918–99) was one of the most influential cultural and intellectual historians of modern Europe. A refugee from Nazi Germany, he was an early leader in the study of fascism and the history of sexuality and masculinity, authoring more than two dozen books. In ContemporaryEurope in the Historical Imagination, an international assembly of leading scholars explore Mosse’s enduring methodologies in German studies and modern European cultural history. Considering Mosse’s life and work historically and critically, the book begins with his intellectual biography and goes on to reread his writings in light of historical developments since his death, and to use, extend, and contend with Mosse’s legacy in new contexts he may not have addressed or even foreseen.

The volume wrestles with intertwined questions that continue to emerge from Mosse’s pioneering research, including: What role do sexual and racial stereotypes play in European political culture before and after 1945? How are gender and Nazi violence bound together? And what does commemoration reveal about national culture? Importantly, the contributors pose questions that are inspired by Mosse’s work but that he did not directly examine. For example, to what extent were Nazism and Italian Fascism colonial projects? How have popular radical right parties reinforced and reimagined ethnonationalism and nativism? And how did Nazi perpetrators construct a moral system that accommodated genocide? Much like Mosse’s own work, the chapters in this book inspire new interventions into the history of gender and sexuality, Jewish identity during the rise of the Third Reich, and the many reincarnations of fascist pageantry and mass politics.

Darcy Buerkle, a professor of history at Smith College, is the author of Nothing Happened: Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide. Skye Doney is the director of the George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Persistence of the Sacred: German Catholic Pilgrimage, 1832–1937. Contributors: Adi Armon, Steven E. Aschheim, Aleida Assmann, Darcy Buerkle, Skye Doney, Arie M. Dubnov, Rebekka Grossmann, David Harrisville, Meike Hoffmann, Andreas Huyssen, Elissa MailÄnder, Frank Mecklenburg, Mary Nolan, Stefanie SchÜler-Springorum, Roger Strauch, Enzo Traverso, Marc Volovici, Elisabeth Wagner, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Robert Zwarg

List of Illustrations
Preface: Mosse’s Berlins
Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney
Introduction: George L. Mosse: The Work, the Legacy, the Man
Steven Aschheim

Part I. George L. Mosse (1918–1999)
1 Civilizing the Nation: Can Mosse’s Europe Be Saved?
Aleida Assmann
2 Past Subjunctive: George L. Mosse’s Memoir
Darcy Buerkle

Part II. New Politics of Exclusion
3 Conceptualizing Fascism: The Legacy of George L. Mosse
Enzo Traverso
4 Women, Gender, and the Radical Right: Then and Now
Mary Nolan
5 Behemoth Rises Again: On Twenty-First-Century Fascism
Andreas Huyssen

Part III. Gender, Violence, and the Everyday
6 Sex and Violence: Race Defilement in Nazi Germany
Stefanie SchÜler-Springorum
7 People Working: Leisure, Love, and Violence in Nazi Concentration Camps
Elissa MailÄnder

Part IV. Soldiers
8 Morality, Nazi Ideology, and the Individual in the Third Reich: The Example of the Wehrmacht
David Harrisville
9 Reading Mosse in Jerusalem: Fallen Soldiers and Israel’s Culture of Commemoration
Arie Dubnov

Part V. German Jews beyond Berlin
10 Religious Commitment and Leadership among German-Jewish Women in the Early Twentieth Century
Sarah Wobick-Segev
11 Who Owns the German Language? Zionism from Hochdeutsch to Kongressdeutsch
Marc Volovici
12 Photography between Empire and Nation: German-Jewish Displacement and the Global Camera
Rebekka Grossmann
13 Max Nordau between George L. Mosse and Benzion Netanyahu
Adi Armon

Part VI. Mosse and Berlin: Then and Today
14 “There’s Nothing Innocuous Left”: The Everyday Transfigured
Robert Zwarg
15 Absence/Presence: The Berlin Mosse Topography
Elisabeth Wagner
16 The Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI) at Freie UniversitÄt Berlin
Meike Hoffmann
17 The Mosse Family in Berlin: Cultural Capital for Subsequent Generations
Frank Mecklenburg

Afterword: A Family Message: The Mosse Berlin Legacy
Roger Strauch

Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.06.2023
Reihe/Serie	George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
Zusatzinfo	80 b&w illus.
Verlagsort	Wisconsin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	337 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-299-34240-9 / 0299342409
ISBN-13	978-0-299-34240-1 / 9780299342401
Zustand	Neuware