Culture and Politics in Fin-de-Siecle Europe Course No.39263 Steven Aschheim

Student Hours: Monday, 12-1. Room 5145 Humanities Email: [email protected]

A). The General European Background:

1). Introduction: E. Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire 1875-1914, (Overture, Ch.1). G. Mosse, The Culture of Western Europe, Ch.1 [3rd ed.] Recommended: James Joll, Europe since 187O, Chs.1.

2). Normative Bourgeois Society?: G. Mosse, and Sexuality, Ch.1. E.Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, Ch.11. Recommended: Arno Mayer, The Persistence of the Old Regime (Introduction, Ch.2).

3). The Crisis of Liberalism, Positivism and Primary Source: , Degeneration (Introduction; pp.1-44; pp.536-560) Oscar Panizza, “The Operated Jew” Secondary Sources: James Joll, Europe since 187O, Ch.2 Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, Ch's.2, 7. G.Mosse, “Max Nordau: Liberalism and the New Jew” in Confronting the Nation Daniel Pick, Faces of Degeneration (excerpts) Sander Gilman, Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress (Conclusion) G.Mosse, The Culture of Western Europe, Ch.12

5). The Socialist and Feminist Challenge:

Primary Readings from Marx, Kautsky, Bernstein, Luxembourg in Irving Howe, Essential Works of Socialism H.Ibsen, The Doll's House E.Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, Ch's.5 & 8. James Joll, Europe since 187O, Ch.3.

B). Towards New Intellectual and Cultural Pastures:

1). The Revolt of Youth: School, Sexuality and Politics Primary Text: Frank Wedekind, Spring Awakening G.Mosse, The Culture of Western Europe, Ch's.13-14. The Crisis of German Ideology (excerpts)

2). Nietzsche and the New Consciousness Selected Readings from Nietzsche (in Hebrew or English): Thus Spake Zarathustra; The Genealogy of Morals S. Aschheim, The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 189O- 199O, Ch's.1,2, 3,4. S.Aschheim, “, Max Nordau and Degeneration” in In Times of Crisis

3). “Irrationalism” and the Rediscovery of the Unconscious

a). Freud and Psychoanalysis S. Freud, Interpretation of Dreams (excerpts); Moses and Monotheism [all in Hebrew] Secondary Sources: P. Rieff, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (Ch's.1,2,1O) D.Boyarin, Unheroic Conduct (Introduction, Chapters 5,6). G. Mosse, The Culture of Western Europe, p.267-273. H.Y.Yerushalmi, Freud’s Moses

b). The Jungian Synthesis: C.G. Jung, The Portable Jung (“The Concept of the Collective Unconscious”; “The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man”) Recommended: H. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious, Ch.9. H. Hughes, Consciousness and Society, pp.153-16O. G. Mosse, The Culture of Western Europe, pp.273-8O. F.Grunfeld, Prophets without Honor, [Hebrew and English] A.Carotenuto, A Secret Symmetry [excerpts]

4). Jews and the Youth Revolt Martin Buber, “On Judaism”, Lectures to Bar Kochba (Hebrew and English) G.Scholem, From Berlin to Jerusalem (excerpts - Hebrew and English) F.Kafka, “Letter to his Father” (excerpts) (Hebrew and English) S.Aschheim, Brothers and Strangers, Ch’s 4,5,6 (article in Hebrew on Ostjuden in Yehudei Weimar, ed.O.Heilbronner) G.Mosse, “The Influence of the Voelkish Idea on German Jewry”, in Germans and Jews S.Aschheim, Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer, Ch.1.

C). "Irrationalism", Proto-Fasicsm and the Politics of Cultural Despair and Regeneration

1). Democratization, Elite Theory and Mass Society G.Le Bon, The Crowd (Author's Preface, Introduction, Book I, Ch.3, Book II, Ch.3) T.Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto (1909). Vilfred Pareto, The Rise and Fall of the Elites Max Weber, "On Charisma" in S.Eisenstadt, ed. On Charisma, pp.181-42. Hobsbawm, pp.84-88; 271-275 T.Bottomore, Elites and Society, Ch.1.

2). "Irrationalism" and Proto-

T.Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto (1909). G. Sorel, Reflections on Violence [also in Hebrew] Z. Sternhell, "Fascist Ideology" in W.Laqueur, Fascism: A Reader's Guide [also in Hebrew]

3). Volkish Ideology, Racism and Anti-Semitism Primary Texts: R.Wagner, "Judaism and Music" (in Hebrew too). Erfurt Programme of Boeckel's Anti-Semitic People's Party

F.Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair G.Mosse, Toward the Final Solution [also in Hebrew] S.Aschheim, "The Jew Within: The Myth of `Judaization' in Germany” in Culture and Catastrophe, Ch.3. Paul Rose, Revolutionary Antisemitism G.Eley, From Unification to , Ch's.9-1O.

D). Vienna As a Case Study:

Arnold Zweig, The World of Yesterday (excerpts) [Hebrew and English] Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (excerpts) [Hebrew and English] Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siecle Vienna (Introduction, and "An Austrian Tryptich”) A. Janik & S. Toulmin, Wittgenstein's Vienna, Ch’s 1-4. B. Bettelheim, Freud's Vienna

E). World War I and the Cultural-Intellectual Revolution:

R. Stromberg, Redemption by War S. Kern, The Culture of Time and Space, Ch's.10-11. M. Ecksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age G. Mosse, Fallen Soldiers, Ch.8 [also in Hebrew.] R.Wohl, The Generation of 1914 Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning