Book contents
- The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930
- Ideas in Context
- The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Book part
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Quattrocento Florence and what it means to be modern
- Chapter 2 Ruthless Renaissance: Burckhardt, Nietzsche, and the violent birth of the modern self
- Chapter 3 Death in Florence: Thomas Mann and the ideologies ofRenaissancismus
- Chapter 4 ‘The first modern man on the throne’: Reich, race, and rule in Ernst Kantorowicz’sFrederick the Second
- Chapter 5 The Renaissance reclaimed: Hans Baron’s case forBürgerhumanismus
- Chapter 6 Conclusion: The waning of the Renaissance – death and afterlife of an idea
- Bibliography
- Index
- Ideas in Context
Chapter 3 - Death in Florence: Thomas Mann and the ideologies ofRenaissancismus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2015
- The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930
- Ideas in Context
- The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Book part
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Quattrocento Florence and what it means to be modern
- Chapter 2 Ruthless Renaissance: Burckhardt, Nietzsche, and the violent birth of the modern self
- Chapter 3 Death in Florence: Thomas Mann and the ideologies ofRenaissancismus
- Chapter 4 ‘The first modern man on the throne’: Reich, race, and rule in Ernst Kantorowicz’sFrederick the Second
- Chapter 5 The Renaissance reclaimed: Hans Baron’s case forBürgerhumanismus
- Chapter 6 Conclusion: The waning of the Renaissance – death and afterlife of an idea
- Bibliography
- Index
- Ideas in Context
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015