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The Great Professors’ War is a groundbreaking study by Polish historian Maciej Gurny about how the First World War was fought not only on the fronts, but also in the minds of intellectuals.
A war of its own was raging among geographers, anthropologists, psychologists, historians, and sociologists across Europe—from Paris to Lviv, from Vienna to Belgrade—a war of its own: a “war of the spirit,” a battle for the definition of nations, races, territories, and borders, for the right to describe “others” and construct “their own.” In the intellectual theater of this war, imperial heritage intertwined with national ambitions, and the main scientific ideas about space, body, and mind—the three dimensions from which the modern nation emerged—were formed.
Gurny shows that during the Great War, human sciences became important elements of political strategies. Intellectuals long before the war sought answers to the ideological demands of statesmen, and scientific concepts increasingly influenced geopolitics, propaganda, and collective consciousness.
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