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Modernity and the Road to War What is Modernity ? Conflicts associated between traditional values and new ideas Agonized questions: • • • • • The family Gender relationships Empire Religion Consequences of technology and progress • Anti-semitism • Militant nationalism Accelerated pace of life… • • • • Private life Population pressure Reforming marriage Politics of sexual identity New Sciences of the Modern Self: Psychoanalysis • Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) • Challenging accepted beliefs of unified, rational man • The ID -- Libido, desires, instinctive Drives • The EGO – Mediating force, in touch with reality • The SUPER EGO – Force of conscience & social norms Revolutions in Science & … • Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) • Big Bang Theory of the origins of the universe • Marie Curie (1867 – 1934) • The discovery of radioactivity • Nobel Prizes for mother and daughter Modern Art: • Henri Matisse – Fauvism • Pablo Picasso – Cubism • Georges Braque – Collage • Art Nouveau – Arts and Crafts Mvmts. • Musical Iconoclasm Growing Tensions in Mass Politics • Labor’s Expanding Power – Trade Unions • The Battle for Suffrage -- Emily Pankhurst • Growing resistance to imperialism • Rising Anti-Semitism – Dreyfus Affair Roads to War • Germany’s Imperial Demands • Crisis in the Balkans • Sarajevo: the War erupts Competing explanations of the origins of World War I • The Mood of 1914: intense nationalism “victimhood” appealing to immediate feelings of patriotism and self-preservation Competing explanations… • The Short War Illusion –..A quick, cleansing thunderstom Competing explanations… • The Primacy of domestic politics Power elites vs. rising labor Competing explanations… • Germany opts for war: –Now or never –The Fisher controversy
