The Perils of Normalcy by Karel Plessini
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the European Jews.In this intellectual biography of George Mosse, Karel Plessini draws on all of Mosse's published and unpublished work to illuminate the origins and development of his groundbreaking methods of historical analysis and the close link between his life and work.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 fervour can climax in intolerance and mass murder—a message of continuing relevance.
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Confronting History
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Ghosts of Fascism
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Writing Against Hitler
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The Red Italians of Monfalcone
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Survival at Treblinka
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The Unspeakable Vice
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Jews and Other Germans
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What History Tells
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Rescue and Remembrance
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Surreal Geographies
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Fascination with the Persecutor
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Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination
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A History of Italian Fascist Culture, 1922-1943
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The Best Weapon for Peace
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Respectability and Violence
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Shaping the New Man
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The Holocaust and the West German Historians
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Jews and the Italian Left
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The Work of Music
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Thunder Cross
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Christian Internationalism and German Belonging
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Collected Memories
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Some Measure of Justice
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Carl Schmitt and the Jews
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The Enemy of the New Man
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Redeeming Objects
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Unlearning Eugenics
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The Invisible Jewish Budapest
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The Crisis of German Ideology
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Last Days of Theresienstadt
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The Jews in Mussolini's Italy
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Messengers of Disaster
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Toward the Final Solution
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Cataclysms
Karel Plessini has been a fellow of the Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz, Germany, and a George L. Mosse Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780299296346 |
| ISBN 10 | 0299296342 |
| Title | The Perils of Normalcy |
| Author | Karel Plessini |
| Series | George L Mosse Series In The History Of European Culture Sexuality And Ideas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Year published | 2014-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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