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Introduction: Quattrocento Florence and what it means to be modern -- "An uncanny re-awakening" : Nietzsche's renascence of the Renaissance out of the spirit of Jacob Burckhardt -- Death in Florence : Thomas Mann and the ideologies of Renaissancismus -- "The first modern man on the throne" : Reich, race, and rule in Ernst Kantorowicz's Frederick the Second -- The Renaissance reclaimed : Burgerhumanismus and the forging of the Baron thesis -- Conclusion: The waning of the Renaissance : Death and after-life of an idea

The George circle : from Künstlergesellschaft to Lebensgemeinschaft / Ute Oelmann -- Stefan George's homoerotic Erlösungsreligion, 1891-1907 / Adam Bisno -- The secret Germany of Gertrud Kantorowicz / Robert E. Lerner -- The poet as idol : Friedrich Gundolf on Rilke and poetic leadership / Rüdiger Görner -- Kingdom of the spirit : the secret Germany in Stefan George's later poems / Ray Ockenden -- The absentee prophet : public perceptions of George's poetry in the Weimar period / David Midgley -- The platonic politics of the George circle : a reconsideration / Melissa S. Lane -- Political economy as Geisteswissenschaft : Edgar Salin and other economists around George / Bertram Schefold -- "Imperium transcendat hominem" : Reich and rulership in Ernst Kantorowicz's Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite / Martin A. Ruehl -- Third Reich and third Europe : Stefan George's imperial mythologies in context / Richard Faber -- From secret Germany to Nazi Germany : the politics of art before and after 1933 / Robert E. Norton -- The George circle and national socialism / Peter Hoffmann -- Stauffenberg : the search for a motive / Thomas Karlauf

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