Martin A Ruehl

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 341
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 677g
• ISBN-13: 9781107036994
• ISBN-10: 1107036992
• Artikelnr.: 41748837

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.