Description
Book SynopsisOriginating from the lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for which George Mosse would become famous, this book addresses, in accessible language, the key issues he saw as animating the movement of culture in Europe. This new edition restores the original 1961 illustrations and features a critical introduction by Anthony Steinhoff.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- A Note on the Present Edition
- Acknowledgments
- A Critical Introduction by Anthony J. Steinhoff
- Introduction: Statement and Definitions
- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 1815–1870
- 1 The Changing Pace of Life
- 2 Romanticism: The Poetry of Life
- 3 Romanticism: Religion and Politics
- 4 Nationalism
- 5 Racism
- 6 The Challenge of Liberty
- 7 Liberalism on the Continent of Europe
- 8 Conservatism
- 9 Idealism Asserted and Rejected
- 10 The Development of Socialism
- 11 Marxism
- 12 The Science of Society
- FROM THE NINETEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1870–1918
- 13 Change in the Public Spirit of Europe
- 14 Romanticism and Idealism Transmitted
- 15 Christianity and Society
- 16 Freud and Psychoanalysis
- 17 Dissolving Certainties
- THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- 18 Theories of the Elite
- 19 Freedom and the Intellectuals
- 20 Existentialism
- 21 Fascism
- 22 National Socialism and the Depersonalization of Man
- 23 Marxism and the Intellectuals
- 24 Confused Alternatives
- 25 Culture and Civilization: One Historian’s Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
