Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 18601930 - 1860-1930

Explores German engagement with the Italian Renaissance in the decades from German unification to the Weimar republic.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Martin A. Ruehl, Martin Ruehl, Martin A. Ruehl, Martin A. (University of Cambridge) Ruehl
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107036994
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03699-4
• No. of pages: 341
• Series: Ideas in Context; Ideas in Context; Ideas in Context, Series Numbe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education