By collectively concentrating on the theme of political symbolism in modern Europe, the contributors to this volume have chosen to honor a revered teacher and colleague by developing a set of variations on one of his primary scholarly concerns.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: George Mosse and Political Symbolism -- Seymour Drescher, David Sabean, and Allan Sharlin -- Part I: The Language of Cultural Crisis -- 1. Degeneration and the Medical Model of Cultural Crisis -- in the French Belle Epoque -- Robert A. Nye -- 2. The Body without Fatigue: A Nineteenth-Century Utopia -- Anson Rabinbach -- 3. Practical Reason in Wilhelmian Germany: Marburg -- Neo-Kantian Thought in Popular Culture -- Tim Keck -- 4. Caftan and Cravat: The Ostjude as a Cultural Symbol in -- the Development of German Anti-Semitism -- Steven E. Aschheim -- 5. Myth and Symbol in Georges Sorel -- David Gross -- Part II: Science, Myth, and Ideology -- 6. Feminism, Fertility, and Eugenics in Victorian and -- Edwardian England -- Richard Allen Soloway -- 7. Darwinism and the Working Class in Wilhelmian Germany -- Alfred H. Kelly -- 8. Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe -- H. G. Koenigsberger -- Part III: Political Discourse and Cultural Symbols -- 9. Popular Theater and Socialism in -- Late-Nineteenth-Century France -- Joan Wallach Scott -- 10. Dashed Hopes: On the Painting of the Wars of Liberation -- Jost Hermand -- Photo essay.