The making of modernity
Subtitle: the Italian Renaissance in the German historical imagination, 1860-1930
By: Martin A. Ruehl
Series: Ideas in context
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781107036994
Subjects: Renaissance; Historiography; German Foreign public opinion; History; Renaissance in literature; German literature; History and criticism; Intellectual life; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
Other titles: Italian Renaissance in the German historical imagination, 1860-1930
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Quattrocento Florence and what it means to be modern; title: "An uncanny re-awakening" : Nietzsche's renascence of the Renaissance out of the spirit of Jacob Burckhardt; title: Death in Florence : Thomas Mann and the ideologies of Renaissancismus; title: "The first modern man on the throne" : Reich, race, and rule in Ernst Kantorowicz's Frederick the Second; title: The Renaissance reclaimed : Burgerhumanismus and the forging of the Baron thesis; title: Conclusion: The waning of the Renaissance : Death and after-life of an idea.