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VOLUME: 35 linear feet
ACCESS: This collection is open to the public upon request. A portion of the collection is closed until 2025.
COPYRIGHT: Please consult the archivist for information about duplication or publishing of any materials from this collection.
Biographical Note
Albert D. Mott was born on November 9, 1920, in Glens Falls, New York to DeWitt C. and Anna Prece Mott. He received his BA and MA from the University of Missouri and his doctorate in History from the University of California at Berkeley. Mott served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He joined the faculty of American University in 1958. His initial appointment was as a professor of European history in the Department of History. He was a founding faculty member of the School of International Service. Mott’s two-semester course, "The Western Tradition," was a requirement for the SIS major from the School's opening in 1958.
Al Mott married his second wife, Siv Sjodin-Mott in 1954. He died in June 2008.
Scope and Content Note
The Albert D. Mott Papers (1883-2008, bulk 1943-1996) consist of audiovisual materials (audio tapes and films); correspondence (personal and professional); manuscripts and other unpublished writings; personal journals; photographs; research files (articles, book reviews, and notes); slides; and teaching materials (syllabi and lecture notes). The focus of the collection is European intellectual history with emphasis on art, "isms" and Germany. Some of the articles are in German.
Provenance
The Mott Papers were donated by his widow, Siv Sjodin-Mott, in January 2011.
Processing Note
The archivist organized the collection into four series. Folder contents were transferred to archival folders and the original folder titles were retained whenever possible. The archivist placed undated folder materials at the end of each file. Student papers, attendance lists, and other materials containing grades were removed and shredded in accordance with American University’s policy on the confidentiality of student records.
Series Descriptions & Box and Folder Listing
Series 1: Personal (1934-2008)
4 linear feet
This series consists of personal correspondence, journals, memorabilia, and writings including promotional materials and newspaper articles Mott collected while he was in Japan and Korea in the 1950s. This series includes extensive correspondence between Mott and his wife, Siv, while he was overseas. This series is organized alphabetically by format and/or subject.
Box 1
Correspondence
1945-1955
1956- 1965
1969-1999
N.D.
2008 (sent to his widow)
Letters to and from Siv RESTRICTED UNTIL 2025
1953-1954
1954
1954-1957, 1970-1974
Correspondence with Abney Family, 1946, 1952-1953, n.d.
Correspondence with Hal Burns Esq.
1934, 1960-1966
1969-1971
Correspondence - Ann McLaughlin, 1975-1977
Correspondence – Education, Employment & Fellowships 1946-1961 (2 folders)
Early Writings, 1940-1949, n.d.
Japan and Korea, 1953-1956, n.d.
Marriage Certificate, 1947
Notes, 1957, n.d.
Stephens College, 1941, n.d.
Personal Journals & Notebooks
1943-1953
1944
Box 2
Personal Journals & Notebooks (continued)
1945
1953 (2)
January-June 1954
1955
The Sacred Mountain: A Sentimental Traveler in Japan, 1956
1960-1961
March-June 1961
July 1961
Tagebugh 1- August 1965- September 1966
Tagebugh 2- October 1965- April 1966
[French, German Language Practice 1966]
January- Feb 1966
Tagebugh 3- April- May 1966
Tagebugh 4- July- August 1966
Idioten Buch- 1967-1968
Nofizen, 1973, 1977
Expense Diary 1977
1977
October 2-18, 1979
October 12, 1979
Europe October 1979
1982 Engagement Calendar
1983
1985 [August 1983]
Box 3
Personal Journals & Notebooks (continued)
1984
May-June 1986
Europe Notebook- June 1986
The Myopic Eye- 1987-1988
The Myopic Eye: 2- 1988 [December 1988- March 1990]
May 1990
Notebook: Europe- June 1991
Notebook: Europe- August 1991
Europe Notebook- June- July 1992
The Myopic Eye Notebook- May- June 1994
Down Memory Lane July 1994- March 1995
Europe 1996
On the Edge of the Millennium Ventings: A Pissed Off Diary- Aug. 1998- Nov. 1999
December 1999- June 2000
August- September 1999
August 2000- September 2001
October 2001- April 2003
June 2002- June 2003
September 2003- 2004
Undated (2)
Series 2: Teaching (1961-1996)
2 linear feet
This series consists of syllabi, exams, lecture and research notes, and newspaper clippings. Courses documented in this series deal with European thought, philosophy, psychology, and history of the post-Enlightenment modern era including Protestant and Catholic traditions. More specifically, the courses examined the evolution of the great European “isms” of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries such as Anti-Semitism, communism, existentialism, fascism, liberalism, Marxism, materialism, Nazism, romanticism, and socialism. Thinkers and writers covered include Darwin, Dostoevsky, Fichte, Freud, Gobineau, Herder, Kierkegaard, LeBon, Mann, Marx, Nietzsche, Sorel, Spengler etc., all of whom feature prominently in Mott’s research files as well. This series is organized chronologically and/or alphabetically by course title.
Box 3 (continued)
American University, 1961-1977
Honors Program, 1985-1994
Star Awards & Other Research Proposals, 1959-1963
European Area Seminar [Fall 1961-Fall 1963]
Backgrounds of Civilization II [Spring 1962; n.d.]
History of Europe I [Spring 1962; n.d.]
Box 4
AU-BCIU: US in the tides of change [ca. 1963-1976]
[BCIU-Interviews, Notes] [Fall 1965]
Intellectual History of Europe II [Summer 1965-Spring 1969]
Intellectual History of Europe III [Spring 1970-Spring 1977]
Honors Seminar: Technological Man [Spring 1970]
Decline and Fall [1973-1991]
European Thought, Politics and Society: European Intellectual History [Spring 1977-Spring 1978]
European Thought and Ideology: Freud to Sartre [Spring 1979-Spring 1987]
Culture and Society: Freud to Sartre [Spring 1986]
European Thought and Ideology: Marx to Max Weber [Fall 1978]
Western Tradition I & II [Fall 1964-Fall 1991] (2 folders)
America in the World [1973-1975]
Honors Seminar in Social Sciences: Nietzsche and National Socialism [Fall 1982]
Ideology, Totalitarianism and Post-Industrial Society [Spring 1983]
20th Century Political Ideas and Movements [Spring 1984-]
Senior Seminar in International Relations: Capitalism and the World System [Fall 1993]
Senior Seminar in International Relations: The End of History [Fall 1994]
Senior Seminar in International Relations: The End of History [Fall 1994-1996]
[Lecture Notes/Class Materials] [n.d.]
Series 3: Research Projects (1883-2000, bulk 1951-1988)
21.5 linear feet
This series contains Mott’s research files. It is broken into the following sub-series: Rome, Christianity, Medieval; Renaissance/Reformation/Science; The English Spirituals; 19th Century Political Ideas and Movements; and 20th Century Political Ideas and Movements.
Rome, Christianity, Medieval
This subseries contains materials related to ancient through medieval history. Specific topics include ancient and medieval religion (the origin and spread of Christianity in Europe, Judaism, Mithraism, the crusades, Anti-Semitism), politics and societies of those periods (ancient Roman and Greek society and art, byzantine, medieval and feudal society, the rise of the Holy Roman Empire). There are also materials dealing with ancient philosophers such as Socrates and Plato. Formats include book reviews, essays, newspaper and magazine articles, research notes, and timelines. This material is organized alphabetically by subject.
Box 5
Birth of the West: 500-1000 [n.d.]
Christianity [ca. 1955-1987] (2 folders)
Demos and Decline [1961-1988; n.d.]
Early Medieval Europe 800-1200 [1966-1974; n.d.] (2 folders)
Greece [1959-2000; n.d.]
Late Medieval Europe: 1200-1450 [1959; n.d.]
Mystery, Cults [1975-1976; n.d.]
[Plato and Demos] [1982-1986; n.d.]
Post-Traditional Society [1962-1975; n.d.]
Vico [Giambattista] [1963-1969; n.d.] (2 folders)
Rome [1958-1976; n.d.] (2 folders)
Renaissance/Reformation/Science
This subseries contains articles and notes on early modern history, with a particular focus on renaissance, reformation, and early enlightenment art, culture, politics, religion, and science. Thinkers represented include Bacon, Calvin, Diderot, Erasmus, Luther, Machiavelli, and Newton. Much of the material is undated. The material is organized alphabetically by subject.
Box 5 (continued)
The Age of Louis XIV [n.d.]
Ball, Hugo: Kritik, 1919
Calvinism: Science + Technology [n.d.]
Church and State in England [n.d.]
The Cultural Bases, 1961
Erasmus & Luther [n.d.]
Box 6
The French Enlightenment [n.d.]
Radical Reformation: Calvin, Münzer & John of Leyden [n.d.]
The Renaissance [n.d.]
Renaissance Art [ca. 1952-1980; n.d.]
Renaissance, More, Machiavelli [n.d.]
Scientific Revolution: Copernicus to Galileo [n.d.]
Science, Philosophy, Revolution [n.d.]
The English Spirituals
This subseries consists of exclusively early modern English materials that pertain to the spiritual and intellectual movements during the English revolutions of the mid-1600s including radical religious leaders, sects, and movements such as antinomianism, Calvinism, Puritanism, rationalism, and Ranterism which was the subject of Mott’s dissertation. Formats include bibliographic cards, notes and manuscripts. Of note are two different copies of Mott’s PhD dissertation titled The Phenomenon of Ranterism in the Commonwealth Sects: A Historical Study in “Familist”, Antinomian and Pantheistic Influence on the Definition of the Inward Light, 1640-1660. The bulk of the materials are undated. The material is organized alphabetically by subject.
Box 6 (continued)
1649 [Precis of Dissertation] [n.d]
Antinomianism [n.d.]
Anti-Trinitarianism [n.d.]
Bauthumley, Jacob [n.d.]
[Bibliographic Cards, Spiritualism] [1960-1962; n.d.]
Boehme, Jacob [n.d.]
[Calvin and the Libertines] [n.d.]
[Chapter IV: Pseudo-Christus]
Joachim of Fiore: The Age of the Spirit [n.d.]
Erbury, William [n.d.]
Everard, Dr. John [n.d.]
Familism: 1630-1650 [n.d.]
The Family of Love [n.d.]
Fox, George and James Nayler [n.d.]
Map of London: XVIIC [n.d.]
Microfilm [n.d.]
Box 7
[Mott, Albert, Dissertation] [ca.1955] (2 folders)
[Muggleton, Lodowick] [n.d]
Overton, Richard & “Man’s Mortality” [n.d.]
The Puritan Revolution [n.d.]
[Quakers] [ca. 1951-1955]
Ranterism [n.d.] (2 folders)
Salmon, Joseph: Christ in the “History” and the “Mystery” [n.d.]
The “Sceptic” = “Seeker” [n.d.]
The Spirituals and “Deism” [n.d.]
Spirituals/Rationalism/Science [n.d.]
Thesis [1952-1955]
Webbe, Thomas [n.d.]
19th Century Political Ideas and Movements
This sub-series covers nineteenth century intellectual history, philosophy, but also scientific and social history such as the European Revolutions of 1848. The focus is the emergence of the great European “isms” of the modern era such as Darwinism, existentialism, Marxism, romanticism, and socialism. Thinkers represented include Marx, Nietzsche and Weber as well as Lafcadio Hearn, a nineteenth-century writer mostly known for his writings on Japan and New Orleans. The sub-series is organized alphabetically by subject.
Box 7 (continued)
19th/20th Century Background [n.d.]
Adams, Henry [1959; n.d.]
The Aesthetes: Agnostics, Alienation, Neo-Hegelians [1963; n.d.]
The Age of the Tourists [1969; n.d.]
Antinomianism [n.d.]
[Antisemitism] [n.d.]
[Chamberlain, Gobineau, Carlyle] [1967; n.d.]
The Crystal Palace [1964; n.d]
[Darwin] [1951-1987]
Davidson, John: Triumph of Mammon [1907]
Box 8
The Debacle of 1848 [1981-92; n.d.]
Discovery of Change [n.d.]
Empiricism: Roger Simonds [1952; n.d.]
Existentialism
Feuerbach, Marx [n.d.]
[Fin de Siecle] [1971-1992, n.d.] (3 folders)
Lessing, Theodor: Einmal und nie wieder [1969]
Lessing, Theodor: Untergang der Erde am Geist [1915]
Reventlow, Franciska: Herrn Dame’s Aufzeichnungen [1913]
Hearn: Aftermath [1956]
Hearn: Alienation [n.d.]
Hearn: Bibliography [1958; n.d.]
Hearn: The Honorable Picnic [n.d.]
Hearn: Introduction [1958-1959; n.d.]
Hearn: Last Years: War and Imperialism [n.d.]
Hearn: Religion [n.d.]
Hearn: The Sacred Mountain [1960; n.d.]
Hegel [1985; n.d.]
The Hegelians [n.d.]
Hegel, Marx [1981; n.d.]
Intellectual Periodicals [1983; n.d.]
Intellectual Types [n.d.]
Kant: The Problem of Historical Reality [1974-1980; n.d.]
Kierkegaard/Newman [n.d.]
Kunzli on Marx etc. [n.d.]
Le Bon, Mosca, Pareto [1896-1964; n.d.]
Lessing, Theodor: Nietzsche [1925]
[Marx] [1961-1976; n.d.]
[Marxism] [1978-1980; n.d.] (2 folders)
Lefebvre, Henri: La Fin [1970]
Weißengrün, Paul: Das Ende des Marxismus [1899]
Box 9
[Materialism] [1977-1982; n.d.]
The Metaphysical Rebellion: 1750-1848 [1960; n.d.]
Mill-Carlyle [1961; n.d.]
Mott: Marx to Weber [1963-1988] (2 folders)
Mumford, Paleotechnic, Neotechnic [1967-1980; n.d.]
Nietzsche [1907; n.d.]
Nietzsche, Nihilism, Circle of Wagner [1958-1963; n.d.]
Nietzsche: Traditional Man [1974; n.d.]
Nietzscheans and Anti-Nietzscheans [1977; n.d.]
Fischer, Hugo: Nietzsche Apostata [1931]
Fille, Alexander: Von Darwin bis Nietzsche [1895]
Krummel, Richard Frank: Nietzsche und der deutsche Geist [1983]
Lefebvre, Henri: L’Existentialisme [1946]
Maulnier, Thierry: Nietzsche [1925]
Pensa: Das deutsche Denken [1947]
Simmel, Georg: Schopenhauer und Nietzsche [1920]
Tönnies, Ferdinand: Der Nietzsche Kultus [1997]
The Nihilist Rebellion [n.d.]
Philosophy-Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Sterner [1963; n.d.]
Rehabilitation: Marx [n.d.]
Romanticism [1959-1979; n.d.] (1 of 2)
Box 10
Romanticism [1959-1979; n.d.] (2 of 2)
Religious Crisis [n.d.]
Science of Society [1951; n.d.]
Scientism and Progress: 1850-1890 [1962-1979; n.d.]
The Social Rebellion: 1848-1917 [1951-1965; n.d.]
Sorel, Georges [1970; n.d.]
Stirner, Max [1967-1974; n.d.]
Stirner, Dostoevsky [1958-1964; n.d.] (2 folders)
[Stirner, Feuerbach, Marx, Ruge] [n.d.]
Stirner-Kierkegaard [1969-1971; n.d.]
Transitional Types [1959-1989, n.d.] (2 folders)
Variations: Fabians, Action Francais, Sorel [1977-1988; n.d.]
[Victorians] [1980-1989; n.d.]
Von Stein, Lorenz [n.d.]
Weber, Max [1925-1974; n.d.]
Weber, Max: The Cage [n.d.]
Weber, Maurras, Sorel: Sociology of Change [n.d.]
Weber+Modernism [1988-1997; n.d.]
The Young Hegelians [n.d.]
20th Century Political Ideas and Movements
This subseries consists of photocopies of books, newspaper, journal, and magazine articles, as well as manuscripts and research notes on French, German, Italian philosophies and political movements with a particular focus on fascism and Nazism. German ideologies, philosophies, and thinkers feature prominently including copies of contemporaneous publications by fascist and Nazi writers such as Alfred Baeumler, Ernst Berg, Georges Bernanos, Robert Brasillach, Drieu La Rochelle, and Arno Schickedanz. Of note are materials on the end of the USSR and the transformation of post-WWII Europe. This sub-series is organized alphabetically by subject.
Box 10 (continued)
1930-present [1952-1964; n.d.]
Absurd [1976-1982; n.d.]
Action Francaise [1962; n.d.]
Box 11
Adorno, Theodor: Cultural Theory [1977; n.d.]
Gehlen, Arnold: Soziologie [1963]
Afro-Asia [1954-1962]
[The Age of Millenial Politics] [1990; n.d.]
All Fluxed Up: America in the tides of change [1968-1986; n.d.]
America as a Civilization/As Others See Us [1950-1997, n.d.] (4 folders)
Angst vor Sodom [1971-1974; n.d.]
Anti-Utopia [n.d.]
Appollo/Dionysos [1930-1957]
[Art-Architecture, Sculpture] [1963-1979]
[Art-Literature, Poetry] [1964-1994, n.d.] (2 folders)
[Art-Painting] [1961-1992; n.d.]
[Art-Performing Art] [1962-1992; n.d.]
Art: 1890-1920 [1964]
Art-Society: Neo-Realism Germany [1970]
Box 12
Becker, Howard: “Process of Secularization” [1932]
Bergson/Durkheim [n.d.]
Bibliography File [1965; n.d.]
Bohemian Republic [1976-1986; n.d.]
Celine, Eliot, Gottfried Benn (1940s) [1965-1966]
China [1958-1961]
Critical Theory: Notes [1979-2000; n.d.]
Cultural Trends since 1945 [ca. 1962-1964]
Dada + 1919 [1979-1982; n.d.]
Decomposition of Marxism/Leninism [1968-1991, n.d.] (2 folders)
Dionysos [1969-1981; n.d.]
Eliot, T.S. [1965; n.d.]
Ending an Epoch [1975-1978; n.d.]
End of History (1 of 2) [1988-1995; n.d.] (2 folders)
Endism [ca. 1987-1989]
[English intellectuals, radicals] [1977-1987]
[Expressionism] [1964-1967; n.d.]
Fascism [1966-1990; n.d.]
Andreu Pierre: Drieu, Temoin et Visionnaire [1952]
Bernanos, Georges: Les Grands Cimetieres Sous La Lune [1938]
Brasillach, Robert: Notre Avant-Guerre [1941]
La Rochelle, Drieu: Avec Doriot [1937]
La Rochelle, Drieu: Chronique Politique 1934-1942 [1943]
Box 13
Fascism (continued)
Maulnier, Thierry: Au dela du nationalisme [1938]
Nolte, Ernst: Faschismus in Italien [1976]
Fascism: Futurist Politics [n.d.]
Fascism: NSDAP [1971-1985]
Freud and Jung, 1920s [1961-1974; n.d.]
Freud and Jung: Appollo vs. Dionysos [1975-1988]
Vergin, Fedor: Das unbewusste Europa [1931]
From Spengler to Hitler [n.d.]
Germany [1948-1995, n.d.] (3 folders)
Germany – Research Notes, n.d.
Gnosis [1906-1985; n.d.]
Habermas/Theory/Stichworte [1984]
Hitler: 1919-1929: From “Sect” to “Mass” Movement [1957-1993]
Hitler/Shaman [1977-1989]
Hutto, Kurt: Kulturbolschewismus [n.d.]
Islam [1959-1992]
Italian Fascism, Nazism [1962-1966; n.d.]
Jünger, Ernst [1977; n.d.]
[Kelly, Petra] [1985-1993]
Box 14
Kennedy: Policy [1960-1961]
Kolnai, Aurel: Counter-Revolution [1932]
Kondratiev [1943-1983, n.d.]
Kultur/Katastrophe [1975-1979; n.d.]
Lenin/Bogdanov [1968; n.d.]
Lewis [n.d.]
Löwenthal [1934]
Mahagonny [1966; n.d.]
Mann: Magic Mountain [1962-1963; n.d.]
[Medicine in 19th and 20th Century Germany] [1993]
Merezhkovski [1953]
The Middle East [1960-1961]
The Mind of 1951 [1951]
Modernis and Modernity [1970-1990; n.d.] (2 folders)
Modernism: Articles [1967-1988; n.d]
Muir, Edwin: We Moderns [1920]
Moeller von der Bruck/ Alfred Rosenberg/ Ernst von Salomon/ Ernst Jünger [n.d.]
Mott, Albert: Collected Works [n.d.]
[Mott, Albert: The Coming of Post-Marxist Society (Notes and Fragments)] [n.d.]
[Mott, Albert: The End of History [n.d.]
[Mott, Albert: The End of History (Notes and Fragments) [n.d.] (2 folders)
[Mott, Albert: Europe After the Rain [1992]
[Mott, Albert: Europe After the Rain, Part II] [n.d.]
Box 15
[Mott, Albert: Europe After the Rain (Notes and Fragments) [n.d.] (4 folders)
[Mott, Albert: Post-History: The End of Millenial Politics] [n.d.]
[Mott, Albert D.: “Western Europe: The New Europe”] [n.d.]
NATO [1947-1962; n.d.] (2 folders)
Nazism [Journal Articles] [1930-1988; n.d.] (5 folders)
Nazism [Museum Exhibits] [n.d.]
Nazism [Newspaper and Magazine Articles] [1969-1995; n.d.]
Box 16
Nazism [Notes] [n.d.] (3 folders)
Nazism [Spiegel Articles] [1966-1979]
Baeumler, Alfred: Studien zur deutschen Geistesgeschichte [1937]
Bergmann [n.d.]
Bergmann, Ernst: Die Deutsche Nationalkirche [1933]
Bergmann, Ernst: Deutschland [1933]
Bergmann, Klaus: Agrarromantik [1970]
Buchheim, Hans: Glaubenskriese im Dritten Reich [1953]
Curtis, Ernst Robert: Deutscher Geist in Gefahr [1935]
Draper, Theodore: The Specter of Weimar [1972]
Forsthoff, Ernst: Der totale Staat [1933]
Geiger, Theodor: Die Masse [n.d.]
Geiger, Theodor: Die Soziale Schichtung [1932]
Geissler, Rolf: Dekadenz und Heroism [1964]
Grunsky, Alfred Hans: Der Einbruch des Judentums in die Philosophie [1937]
Guéhenno, Jean: Journal des années noires [1947]
Gumplowicz, Ludwig: Der Rassenkampf [1883]
Hamilton, Alastair: The Appeal of Fascism [1971]
Hermand, Jost: Orte. Irgendwo. [1981]
Hermens, Ferdinand A: “Germany, Europe and the World” [1945]
Hussong, Friedrich: Kurfürstendamm [1934]
Box 17
Nazism [Spiegel Articles] continued
Hutten, Kurt: Christus oder Deutschglaube [1935]
Hutten, Kurt: Ein neues Evangelium? [1937]
Hutten, Kurt: Um Blut und Glauben [1932]
Krannhals, Paul: Der Weltsinn der Technik [1932]
Krannhals, Paul: Revolution des Geistes [1935]
Kraus, Karl: Die Dritte Walpurgisnacht [1952]
Ludwig, Karl-Heinz: Technik und Ingenieure im Dritten Reich [1974]
Möller-Hill, Bruno: Tödliche Wissenschaft [1984]
Müller-Lyer, F.: Soziologie der Leiden [1918]
Schickedanz, Arno: Sozialparasitismus im Völkerleben [1927]
Schieder, Theodor: Hermann Rauschning [1972]
Schmitz, Oscar A. H.: Das rätselhafte Deutschland [1920]
Schneid, Sadi: SS-Beutedeutscher [1979]
Sebottendorf, Rudolf: Bevor Hitler kam [1933]
Von Martin, Alfred: Der heroische Nihilismus [1948]
Von Oppen, Beate Ruhm: Religion and Resistance to Nazism [1971]
Wirth, Herman: Der Aufgang Der Menschheit [1928]
Nizan [1973; n.d.]
New Humanism [1937]
NLR Articles [1969-1985]
Oswald + the University [ca. 1963-1969]
Political Culture: US 1929 [n.d.]
Post-Historical Britain [1974-1993; n.d.]
Post-Historical Situations [1966-1981; n.d.]
Post-Modernism [n.d.] (2 folders)
Box 18
Post-Modernism [1972-1992]
Rathenau [n.d.]
Rauschning [1981-1985]
The Revolt Against Positivism [1961-1970; n.d.]
[Sartre] [1984-1987; n.d.]
Soviet Union [1978-1995; n.d.] (2 folders)
Spengler Notes [1972-1973; n.d.]
Student Revolts [1969-1970; n.d.]
Epistémon: Ces idées [1968]
Hermann, Kai: Die Revolte der Studenten [1968]
Surrealism and Politics [1968; n.d.]
Sociopaths [1972-1973]
[Telos Articles] [1965-1983]
[Theory and Society Articles] [1974-1985]
Toynbee, Arnold. [1952-1972; n.d.]
Unamuno, Miguel de [1964; n.d.]
Utopia and Millenium [1972-1981; n.d.]
U.S. Articles and Publications [1948-1992]
Vitalism [n.d.]
War and Revolution [1982-1990; n.d.]
Weimar Germany [1932-1980; n.d.] (3 folders)
[Western Europe] [1969-1999; n.d.]
Zandler, H. Jean [1970]
Boxes 19-25
Bibliographies (3x5 cards)
Series 4: Audiovisual Materials (1953-1992)
7.5 linear feet
This series contains audio and visual materials documenting Mott’s personal and professional life. The slides and photographs contain images of trips taken to England, Italy, Korea, and Nazi Germany, philosophers, and Russian art work. Many of the slides featuring art or politics are undated, and the majority of the slides were annotated by Mott. The slides and photographs have been arranged alphabetically by subject, with Mott’s photographs, mixed negatives, and microfilm rolls placed at the end. The bulk of the audio tapes and film feature Mott’s class lectures or discussions, and are arranged alphabetically, with the audio tapes coming first.
Box 26 [Slides]
17th/18th Century, n.d.
19th Century, n.d.
1900: Society and Politics, n.d.
20th Century Art, n.d.
20th Century Politics, n.d.
Art and Revolution, USSR, n.d.
Avant Garde, n.d.
Bourgeois Realism/Impressionism, n.d.
Christianity, n.d.
Commune Irimbaud, n.d.
Copenhagen/Brussels/Munich, n.d.
Crosby, et. al, n.d.
Crystal Palace, Second Empire (2 folders), n.d.
Dadaists, Depression, Depersonalization, Nazi Art, n.d.Early 20th Century Art, n.d.
Dada/Expressionism, n.d.
Egyptian Mother Goddess, n.d.
Endlosung, n.d.
Entartete Kunst, n.d.
Erivin Discator, Political Theater, n.d.
Europe, 1954-1955
Existentialism, n.d.
Expressionism, Kirchner, Franc Marc, Emil Noble, Kokoschka, n.d.
Fascism France/United Kingdom, 1930s
Fin de Siecle, n.d.
Freud, 1900-1914
Futurism Expressionism, 1900-1914
Futurism Fascism, n.d.
Futurism, late 1920s
Germany, 1918-1919/Inflation
Greece, Women Decadence, n.d.
Gustav Klimt, Erotic Decadence, n.d.
Hellas/Rome
Hitler: The Twenties
Hitler Prelude, 1930-1936
Illustration Charts, n.d.
Korea, 1953-1954
London, 1950s
Box 27 [Slides, Photographs and Microfilm]
May 1968, Events, 1968
Medieval, n.d.
Modern Art 1890-1945
Modern Art
Nazi Art, Fascist Art, Leonard Heidegger, n.d.
Nazism, n.d.
Occupied France, n.d.
Pop Art, n.d.
Renaissance, Late Medieval, n.d.
Romantics to 1840
Rome 1, n.d.
Rome 2, n.d.
Imperial Rome 2
Rome, Mystery Religions, n.d.
Russian Revolution, Political, n.d.
Schiele, “Facade” and “Psyche”, n.d.
Surrealism, n.d.
Sweden (BCIU), n.d.
Thanatos
Thirties: 1938, Heidegger, Architecture, Chancellory, n.d.
Twenties: Art Deco, Nancy Conard n.d.
Weimar, n.d.
Mott Wedding Announcement
Personal Photographs
Mixed Negatives and Photographs
Microfilm, George Arthur Johnson, A Study in 17th Century
Microfilm, George Arthur Johnson, English Spiritualism Before Quakers
Microfilm, Lodomicke Muggleton/G.C. Williamson
Microfilm, The Prophet of Walnut Tree Yard, Rev. A. Jessopp
Box 28 [Audiotapes (A-Fl), CD, VHS]
20th Century Europe Western Tradition (CD)
Decadence Interviews (VHS)
Luther and the Reformation (CD)
Millennial Research (VHS)
Petra Kelly and General Gert Bastian – 1992 (VHS)
Video Diary: From FDR to Bush (VHS)
Audio tapes
1) Post Historicist Blues (2)
4) Camus: Logical Crime
5) Historicist Hangover
6) Political Culture: Russia/France
7) The Big Change: From Sartre to Kojeve
8) Marcuse & the Dionysians
9) Michel Foucault
10) Prague Spring to Terrorism
11) Louis Althusser
12) Edge of the Millennium
Adorno (Hogan)
Aftermath: Hobbes
After the Coup #2
Agape & Eros
Andrei Anikin: Soviet Economist
Armand, Das Problem der Sexuellen Beziehungen und der Individualistichse Gesichtspunkt
Athens: The Collapse of the Polis
Axial Period – Marx and Max Stirner
Bacon – Tis All in Peeces
Berlin Dada
Berlin Dada
Birth of the Polis
Blicks ins Chaos
Bolshevism & Historicism
Bolshevism/Nazism: Spengler/Weber
Bourgeois Neurasthenia
Brandt
Breakdown of the Roman Republic
Britain in Extremis: H.G. Wells
Calvinism & Science
Cassirer
Chance
Charles Hogan Interview (3)
Christianity
Christianity: Sect to World Religion
Class Discussion: Aldous Huxley
Copernicus/Giordano Bruno
Critical Theory April 1990
Cromwell vs. Mott – Luther & Modern Politics
Cultural Determinism: The Inquest
Czechoslovakia (2)
Dada
Dada
Dada/Russian Futurism/Constructivism
Dada/Russian Futurism/Leninism
Darwin: Time without Telos
De Christianization: Gnosis
Dechristianization: 18th Century France
Dechristianization: Gnosis
Decline & Fall
Decline: Nietzsche & Dostoevsky
Decline of the Church
Decomposition of Marxism April 1990
Descartes, Spinoza, Hobbes
Diocletian/Julian/Theodosius
Dionysius in the Clinic: Freud & Jung
Dostoevsky: The Transitional Man
Dualism – Spirit Matter
Eclipse of the Polis
Ehud Sprinzak: Israeli Fundamentalism
English Revolution
Erasmus & Luther
Eros
Eros and Transgression
Existentialism
Existentialism & Marxism: Sartre
Fascism: Futurist Politics
Father God: Mother Goddess
Film/Prolet-Kult/Nero
Flight of the Intellectual
Florence: Capitalism without conscience
Box 29 [Audiotapes (Fr – T)]
Fragment on Dionysianism
Franco Ferrarott
French Revolution
French Revolution (2)
Freud & Jung: Apollo vs. Dionysius
Freud & Nietzsche (2)
From Futurism to Constructivism
Futurism
Futurismo
Futurism to Constructivism
Gail Bliss
Galileo – The New World Picture
Gastarbeiter
German Divisions – Petra Kelly
German Political Culture
German Political Culture: 1919
Gert Mueller
Gleichschaltung
Gleichschaltung: Christoph Steding
Gnosis
Gnosis & Nazism
Gnostic Crime: The Death Camps
Gnosticism (Nazism) Charles Maier
Grosz/Piscator
Hamid Mowlana: Critical Theory
Hapsburg Austria: The Isolation Cell
Hegel, Marx
Hegel/Marx
Hegel/Marx
Heidegger
Heidegger & Cassirer
Hesse: Blicks ins Chaos
High Bohemia/Fascism
Hitler
Hitler’s Death
Hugo Pienda: Values
Individuation to Mass: Premonitions
Introduction: Subjectivity/Objective World
Introduction Fall 1991
Italian Communism
Italianate Capitalism
Jesus
Jew-Greek: From tribe to polis
Kamyar Vala: The Iranian Revolution
Keller, Politics & Spring 1998
Kepler/Galileo
Kracau/Auschwitz
Kurt Weill
La Critique Universelle
La Critique Universelle: Montesquieu
Last Lecture: Spengler/ Alain Touraine
Lenin
Lenin: the Tactician of Revolution
Leninismo
Lenin’s Machiad: Physics & Politics
Locke & Newton
Logical Crime: Camus
Lord Anthony Quinton
Lukacs & Modernism
Lukacs & Modernism (2)
Luther
Luther
Luther: Manic Depressive
Machiavelli/Erasmus
Mackay, Der Unschuldige die Geschichte einer wandlung
Mahagonny
Mahagonny: Nazism
Mahagonny: The Choir of the Coming Reich
Malaise in the Jazz Age (2)
Marx & Lenin
Marx & the Commune
Marx, Spencer, J.S. Mill
Marx, Weber: Hitler
Marx in Midpassage: Surplus Value
Max Weber: Synchronic vs. Diachronic
Max Weber: The Cage of the Future (2)
Michael Shapiro: Language
Michel Foucault: Paris 1968
Millennialism
Millennialism – Reaction
Modernism & Modernity
Montesquieu & Rousseau
Mother Goddess: Jew & Greek
Munzer
Munzer, John of Leyden, Calvin
Munzer/Leyden/Calvin
Mussolini & Hitler
Mutation: Religion/Science
Napoleon & Romanticism
Nausea
Nazism
Nazism
Nazism – Petra and Bastian
Nietzsche & Modernism
Nietzsche & National Socialism (1989)
Nietzsche: Philosopher of the Future (2)
Nietzsche vs. Marx
Nietzsche’s Mustache: Nihilism & Decadence
Nizana & Camus
Oedipal Crime
Paul Nizan: The Absurd & Marxism
Petra Kelly & Gen. Gert. Bastian (VHS)
Petra Kelly: On the Reunification of Germany
Petra Party
Plato’s Prejudices
Playing with Personae
Polarities
Politics and Myth: Sorel
Politics and Society: Locke/Maundeville/Wesley (part 3)
Portugal & Spain (3)
Post-Historical Greece
Post War Europe
Pre-Christian Philosophy, Isis & Mithra
Pre-Socratics Plato
Premonitions
Princes & the Papacy
Private Vices = Public Good
Private Vices Public Good Locke
Progress
Protean Kingship: The Common Law
Rabbi vs. Savior God
Rationalism & Secularization
Red Brigades
Renaissance: Burckhardt & Huizinga
Republic to Empire: Military Politic
Revolution: 1640-1660
Rise of Christianity
Robert Jay Lifton: Logical Crime
Romanticism
Romanticism/Hegel
Romanticism: Herder
Romanticism – Hegel
Rome: Decline and Fall (3)
Rousseau & the General Will
Russian Revolution
Sartre
Sartre/Nizan/Camus
Sartre: Nausea
Sartre in Purgatory
Scientific Revolution
Secular to Sacral: Julian the Apostate
Social Asthenia: Fascism: France
Sociology of Change
Sociology of Change
Sociology of Change (2)
Sociology of Change: Weber
Spencer
Spencer, Mill, & Marx: The Age of Capital
Spengler
Spengler
Spengler & Modernism
Spengler & Weber
Spengler & Weber
Spengler vs. Weber
Steiner: Language
Steven Levine: Chinese Communism
Stirner- Bauer
Stourzh, Max Stirners Philosophie Des Ich
Survey: Islam
T.S. Eliot reading
Table Talk December 1997
Terrorism
Thanatos
The Bohemian Republic
The Cage of the Future
The Change of Phase
The Collapse of Communism
The Crystal Palace: Spencer, Comte, & Mill
The Debacle of 1848: Marx and Bruno Bauer
The Decline of the Roman Republic
The Dual State (2)
The End of History: First Lecture
The First Modern Revolution
The Genealogy of Morals
The General Will
The Isolation Cell: Habsburg, Austria
The Last Semester: Introduction
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain #2
The Nietzscheans (2)
The Problem of Jesus: Russian Confessional
The Pursuit of the Millennium (2)
The Rational Soul – Erasmus
The Rational Supernaturalists
The Renaissance: The Janus Faced
The Second Revolution
The Twenties: Aldous Huxley & Weimar
Thule
Toynbee: Kast Lecture
Transition
Transition: 1850-1880
Tribute to Steve Levine
Troetsch
Vico
Vico and the Goddess
Vico – Late Medieval Society
War & Revolution
War & Revolution: 1914-1917
Weimar: The Bohemian Republic (2)
West Germany: 1968 Gunther Grass
Yusef Ibish: Islam & Nationalism
Box 30 [Film, Reel to Reel Audio]
77 Groscz (8mm film)
1965 Nuremburg/Regenburg/Wien
Antinomianism: Thelma Lanine 1968//Nihilism: Jolade Rummer (Reel to Reel Audio)
Art 1967
Berlin, Jetzt Freue Dich/Geschichte Unserer Zeit/Acs Forschung und Geisteseleben//Literatur – Revolutionen 1910-1925 (3"audio)
Brindisi/Paris 1969
Dalii (8mm film)
Early 1947 (8mm film)
Eco-Topic #4 (Reel to Reel Audio)
Eco-topics #2 – Control of the Money Supply (Reel to Reel Audio)
Esso, NY 1966
Europe 1965 (5)
European Opinion: Bertil Galland; Jean-Paul Medard; Jacques Duval (Reel to Reel Audio)
Florida 1977
German Students/Demonstrations 1969
Germany 1973
Gourmet Series (8mm film)
Heidelberg 1965 (5)
Hellas 1969
Hidden Revolution 1960//The Beat Generation 1960
Interview with Jean Francois Revel (Voice of America)
Isaiah Berlin – Roots of Romanticism 1964
Koln/Aachen/Bruges/ Dinkelsbuhl
Korea: Brainwashing
Lisboa 1973
Louis Miller/Sherrie Stockholm 1965
Meiser 1969
Michael/Modres (8mm film)
Munich 1960//Goering 1959
O.Bien/Capelli/Bentley/Malamuth 1972
Pisa/Florence/Venice
San Francisco/Berkeley 1972
Spain 1973
The Neo Impressionists (Cultural History Research)
The Pioneers of Nonobjective Art (Cultural History Research)
Washington 1964
Xmas 1962
“Common Market” on prospects of mankind//Rilke (Reel to Reel Audio)