The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930Cambridge University Press, 15.10.2015 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. |
Inhalt
Burckhardt Nietzsche | 58 |
Thomas Mann and the ideologies | 105 |
Reich race | 166 |
Hans Barons case | 224 |
The waning of the Renaissance death | 253 |
Bibliography | 275 |
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Aby Warburg aesthetic Albrecht Dürer artists Baron thesis Berlin Bertram Betrachtungen Bildung bourgeois Brackmann Bruni Burckhardt thesis Burckhardt’s Civilization Burdach Cesare Borgia Christian civic humanism concept context cultural Deutsche deutschen Deutschland Dürer early modern Italy Emperor Empire Ernst Kantorowicz European fin-de-siècle Fiorenza Florence Florentine Frankfurt/Main Frederick II Frederick the Second George’s German Germany’s Geschichte Ghibelline Goethe Goetz Hans Baron Heinrich historian Historische Zeitschrift History Hohenstaufen Humanismus humanists ibid idea ideal individual intellectual interpretation Italian Renaissance Jacob Burckhardt Jahrhundert Kaegi Kaiser Friedrich Knight Kristeller Kultur der Renaissance Kunst Leipzig Leonardo Leonardo Bruni Luther Machiavelli Mann’s medieval Middle Ages Mittelalter moral Munich Nietzsche Nietzsche’s nineteenth century philosophy political Protestant Quattrocento Reformation Reich Renaissance civilization Renaissance humanism Renaissance in Italien Renaissancebild Renaissanceidee Renaissancismus republican revival Roman Savonarola scholars secular spirit Stefan George Stuttgart Thomas Mann tyrants Wagner Weimar Werke