By collectively concentrating on the theme of political
symbolism in modern Europe, the con-tributors to this volume have
cho-sen to honor a revered teacher and colleague by developing a
set of variations on one of his primary scholarly concerns. The
essays deal with familiar domains in the history of European
culture: reli-gion, science, philosophy, theater, popular culture,
and social ideologies. They attempt to focus on their individual
subjects as studies of the ways in which the terms of cultural
discourse have been shaped and elaborated by social position and
the inherently political nature of such discourse. The essays also
trace attempts to capture assent or compliance to particular world
views which have had profound cultural and political consequences.
Many es-says deal with the vocabularies of strategically located
elites con-sciously or unconsciously shap-ing discourse to enhance
their role in the Eruopean social hierar-chy. Others turn to the
problem of the dynamics of symbolic recep-tion and reception by
popular au-diences. A third group of thematic essays deals with
case studies of world views dominated by politi-cal metaphors of
group identityand differentiation which became dominant in Western
Europe to-ward the end of the nineteenth century--class, nation,
sex, age, and race.
The essays in the volume deal with: George Mosse and political
symbolism; the medical model of cultural crisis in fin de siecle
France; cultural uses of "fatigue" in the nineteenth century;
Mar-burg neo-Kantian thought and German popular culture; the
Ostjude as a cultural symbol in German anti-Semitism; the func-tion
of myth and symbol in Georges Sorel; feminism and eugenics in
Edwardian England; Darwinism and the working class in Germany;
science and religion in early modern Europe; popular theater and
socialism in fin de siecle France; political symbolism in the
paintings of the German war of liberation; generational discourse
in pre-World War I France; and cultural implications of
national-socialist religion.
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