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Auteur(s) : Plessini, Karel
Titre(s) : The perils of normalcy [Texte imprimé] : George L. Mosse and the remaking of cultural history / Karel Plessini
Publication : Madison : the University of Wisconsin press, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-284 p.) : illustration ; 23 cm
Collection : George L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history
Lien à la collection : George L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history
Comprend : Introduction: The serpent and the dove ; From machiavellism, to totalitarianism
; Beyond the history of intellectuals ; The roots of the anthropolocial and visual
turn ; The dark side of modernity ; From michiavellism to the holocause ; The missing
link: the nationalis revolution ; The "true mission of Judaism" ; The granitic foundation
of faith ; Conclusion: George L Mosse's legacy
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-266) and index
A taboo-breaker and a great provocateur, George L. Mosse (1918-99) was one of the
great historians of the twentieth century, forging a new historiography of culture
that included brilliant insights about the roles of nationalism, fascism, racism,
and sexuality. Jewish, gay, and a member of a culturally elite family in Germany,
Mosse came of age as the Nazis came to power, before escaping as a teenager to England
and America. Mosse was innovative and interdisciplinary as a scholar, and he shattered
in his groundbreaking books prevalent assumptions about the nature of National Socialism
and the Holocaust. He audaciously drew a link from bourgeois respectability and the
ideology of the Enlightenment -- the very core of modern Western civilization -- to
the extermination of the European Jews. In this intellectual biography of George
Mosse, Karel Plessini draws on all of Mosse's published and unpublished work to illuminate
the origins and development of his groundbreaking methods of historical analysis and
the close link between his life and work. He redefined the understanding of modern
mass society and politics, masterfully revealing the powerful influence of conformity
and political liturgies on twentieth-century history. Mosse warned against the dangers
inherent in acquiescence, showing how identity creation and ideological fervor can
climax in intolerance and mass murder -- a message of continuing relevance. -- Back
cover
Sujet(s) : Mosse, George Lachmann (1918-1999)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780299296346 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0299296342 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9780299296339 (erroné) (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44314769m
Notice n° :
FRBNF44314769
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