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A Poet's Reich - Politics and Culture in the George Circle (Hardcover, New)
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A Poet's Reich - Politics and Culture in the George Circle (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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A re-examination of the George Circle in the cultural and political
contexts of Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi Germany. 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 Hoelderlin. Yet George's reach extended
beyond the sphereof 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 formsof 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 Goerner, 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 Lecturerin German Thought and Fellow
of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
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