Fascination with the Persecutor: George L. Mosse and the Catastrophe of Modern Man

Author:   Emilio Gentile ,  John Tedeschi ,  Anne Tedeschi
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
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9780299334307


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   31 December 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Fascination with the Persecutor: George L. Mosse and the Catastrophe of Modern Man


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In 1933, George L. Mosse fled Berlin and settled in the United States, where he went on to become a renowned historian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Through rigorous and innovative scholarship, Mosse uncovered the forces that spurred antisemitism, racism, nationalism, and populism. His transformative work was propelled by a desire to know his own persecutors and has been vital to generations of scholars seeking to understand the cultural and intellectual origins and mechanisms of Nazism. This translation makes Emilio Gentile’s groundbreaking study of Mosse’s life and work available to English language readers. A leading authority on fascism, totalitarianism, and Mosse’s legacy, Gentile draws on a wealth of published and unpublished material, including letters, interviews, lecture plans, and marginalia from Mosse’s personal library. Gentile details how the senior scholar eschewed polemics and employed rigorous academic standards to better understand fascism and the “catastrophe of the modern man”—how masculinity transformed into a destructive ideology. As long as wars are waged over political beliefs in popular culture, Mosse’s theories of totalitarianism will remain as relevant as ever.

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Author:   Emilio Gentile ,  John Tedeschi ,  Anne Tedeschi
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint:   University of Wisconsin Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.491kg
ISBN:  

9780299334307


ISBN 10:   0299334309
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   31 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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"""Choosing to let Mosse speak for himself, Gentile has tried (with great success) to reconstruct the complexity of Mosse's historiographical trajectory from within.""--Quaderni fiorentini per la storia del pensiero giuridico moderno ""Gentile draws an intellectual profile of Mosse. The book, which is thorough and written with astute empathy, does not limit itself to reconsidering Mosse's principal historical studies but--where necessary--it widens the focus of attention.""--Società italiana per lo studio della storia contemporanea ""Gentile is the scholar who has best succeeded in adopting and engaging Mosse's research methodology and intuitions, and who has re-elaborated them with a good dose of originality in his celebrated studies on nationalism and the sacralization of politics.""--Rivista storica italiana"


Choosing to let Mosse speak for himself, Gentile has tried (with great success) to reconstruct the complexity of Mosse's historiographical trajectory from within. --Quaderni fiorentini per la storia del pensiero giuridico moderno Gentile draws an intellectual profile of Mosse. The book, which is thorough and written with astute empathy, does not limit itself to reconsidering Mosse's principal historical studies but--where necessary--it widens the focus of attention. --Societa italiana per lo studio della storia contemporanea Gentile is the scholar who has best succeeded in adopting and engaging Mosse's research methodology and intuitions, and who has re-elaborated them with a good dose of originality in his celebrated studies on nationalism and the sacralization of politics. --Rivista storica italiana


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Emilio Gentile is professor emeritus of history at Sapienza University in Rome. John Tedeschi is a Reformation historian, and Anne C. Tedeschi is a book conservator. Their many co-translated works include The Jews in Mussolini's Italy by Michele Sarfatti and the award-winning The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg.

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