Africa is a space for imagining. From a land of slaves with different attributes to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to a “country” beset by maladies, the African continent has been and remains a repository …
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Jon Beltz, Of God and Gods: Who Influences Whom?
One critical question in the study of religion from at least the late nineteenth century and the work of Durkheim is the relationship between society and religion. Do social phenomena influence religion, or does religion …
Jon Beltz, Of God and Gods: Assmann on Religious Violence
Violence and its perpetrators play an important part in a number of the books in the Mosse series. Jan Assmann’s Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism is no exception. …
Jon Beltz, Of God and Gods: Egyptology in Modern European Thought
As mentioned in my previous post on Jan Assmann’s book Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, it may seem unusual to find such a book in a publication series devoted …
Jon Beltz, Assmann’s Of God and Gods: An Overview
At first glance, Egyptologist Jan Assmann’s book Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism seems like an unlikely candidate for inclusion in the George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural …
Jason Doerre, Fascism Then, Fascism Today
While I have used my previous two posts for this blog, sponsored by the George L. Mosse Program, to highlight the enduring value and integrity of George Mosse’s editorial work in compiling Nazi Culture: Intellectual, …
Jason Doerre, What is Nazi Culture?
In my last blog post I made the case for the significance of George Mosse’s work, and in particular his book Nazi Culture: Intellectural, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich. The relevance of …
Jason Doerre, On the Value of Studying Nazi Culture
“The Third Reich has made a deep impression upon our civilization, and its impact has not diminished with the passing years,” begins George Mosse’s introduction to his 1966 work Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social …
Matthew Unangst, Carl Schmitt and the Jews: Schmitt’s Legacy
This is the fourth and final in a series of blog posts about Raphael Gross’ Carl Schmitt and the Jews. After the war, Schmitt returned to Christianity, becoming part of a group of Christians stylizing …
Matthew Unangst, Carl Schmitt and the Jews: Sovereignty
This is the third in a series of posts about Raphael Gross’ Carl Schmitt and the Jews. Schmitt’s concept of sovereignty, that the sovereign is “he who decides on the state of exception,” has taken …