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Political Symbolism in Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of George L.Mosse

Political Symbolism in Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of George L.Mosse

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral European HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1138513326
ISBN13: 9781138513327
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2020
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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