The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930

AvMartin A. Ruehl

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes, German historians and writers reinvented the Italian Renaissance as the onset of a heroic modernity: a glorious dawn that ushered in an age of secular individualism, imbued with ruthless vitality and a neo-pagan zest for beauty. The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination is the first comprehensive account of the debates that shaped the German idea of the Renaissance in the seven decades following Jacob Burckhardt's seminal study of 1860. Based on a wealth of archival material and enhanced by more than one hundred illustrations, it provides a new perspective on the historical thought of Imperial and Weimar Germany, and the formation of a concept that is still with us today.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-30
Mått:153 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ideas in Context
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108468152

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Martin A. Ruehl is Lecturer in German intellectual history at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. His publications include Quentin Skinner: Visionen des Politischen (2009, edited with M. Heinz), A Poet's Reich: Politics and Culture in the George Circle (2011, edited with M. Lane), and Hitler - Films from Germany: History, Cinema and Politics since 1945 (2012, edited with K. Machtans).

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'From Jacob Burckhardt and Friedrich Nietzsche to Thomas Mann, Ernst Kantorowicz and Hans Baron, the idea of the Renaissance has played an inspirational if contested role in the German cultural imagination. With great erudition and critical insight, Martin A. Ruehl traces the adventures of this idea, demonstrating its politics, complexities, and enduring appeal. Ruehl's book is simply superb, a powerful specimen of intellectual history at its very best.' Peter E. Gordon, Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University, Massachusetts

Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Quattrocento Florence and what it means to be modern; 2. Ruthless Renaissance: Burckhardt, Nietzsche and the violent birth of the modern self; 3. Death in Florence: Thomas Mann and the ideologies of Renaissancismus; 4. 'The first modern man on the throne': Reich, race and rule in Ernst Kantorowicz's Frederick the Second; 5. The Renaissance reclaimed: Hans Baron's case for Bürgerhumanismus; 6. Conclusion: the waning of the Renaissance - death and afterlife of an idea; Bibliography; Index.