A Poet's Reich: Politics and Culture in the George Circle - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 157113462X ISBN 13 : 9781571134622

Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2011

Synopsis

Stefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important figures in modern German culture. His poetry, in its originality and impact, has been ranked with that of Goethe and Holderlin. Yet George's reach extended beyond the sphere of literature. In the early 1900s, he gathered around himself a circle of disciples who subscribed to his vision of comprehensive cultural-spiritual renewal and sought to turn it into reality. The ideas of the George Circle profoundly affected Germany's educated middle class, especially in the aftermath of the First World War, when their critique of bourgeois liberalism, materialism, and scholarship (Wissenschaft) as well as their call for new forms of leadership (Herrschaft) and a new Reich found wider resonance. The essays collected in the present volume critically re-examine these ideas, their contexts, and their influence. They provide new perspectives on the intersection of culture and politics in the works of the George Circle, not least its ambivalent relationship to National Socialism. CONTRIBUTORS: Adam Bisno, Richard Faber, Rudiger Gorner, Peter Hoffmann, Thomas Karlauf, Melissa S. Lane, Robert E. Lerner, David Midgley, Robert E. Norton, Ray Ockenden, Ute Oelmann, Martin A. Ruehl, Bertram Schefold. MELISSA S. LANE is Professor of Politics at Princeton University. MARTIN A. RUEHL is Lecturer in German Thought and Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.

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Queen's CollegeCambridge, England

DAVID R. MIDGLEY is Emeritus Professor of German Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Camden House Inc
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 157113462X
• ISBN 13: 9781571134622
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Éditeur: Lane Melissa S., Ruehl Martin A.
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