Description
Book SynopsisBrings together twelve of celebrated historian George L. Mosse’s most important essays to explore competing forms of European nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These essays retain their significance today in their examination of the cultural and social implications of contemporary nationalism.
Trade Review“Penetrating scholarly essays . . . [demonstrate] an easy mastery of cultural and political history.”—
Publishers Weekly “
Confronting the Nation is quintessential George Mosse: passionate, articulate, and wide-ranging.”—
SHOFAR“Brings together many of the most convincing arguments of his oeuvre. Mosse is at his best in describing the modes of national self-display.”—
Journal of Jewish StudiesTable of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Critical Introduction by Shulamit Volkov
- Introduction: Confronting the Nation
- Part I: The Nation Displays Itself
- 1. National Anthems: The Nation Militant
- 2. National Self-Representation during the 1930s in Europe and the United States
- 3. Community in the Thought of Nationalism, Fascism, and the Radical Right
- 4. Political Style and Political Theory: Totalitarian Democracy Revisited
- 5. Fascism and the French Revolution
- 6. The Political Culture of Italian Futurism
- 7. Bookburning and Betrayal by the German Intellectuals
- Part II: The Jews and the Modern Nation
- 8. The Jews and the Civic Religion of Nationalism
- 9. Jewish Emancipation: Between Bildung and Respectability
- 10. German Jews and Liberalism in Retrospect
- 11. Max Nordau: Liberalism and the New Jew
- 12. Gershom Scholem as a German Jew
- Notes
- Index
