LEADER 03308nam 22004935 450 001 9910819194503321 005 20190925031139.0 010 $a1-5017-2924-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501729249 035 $a(CKB)4100000006673832 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5774207 035 $a(OCoLC)1132225306 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse71278 035 $a(DE-B1597)515107 035 $a(OCoLC)1121056667 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501729249 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006673832 100 $a20190925d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSecret Germany $eStefan George and His Circle /$fRobert E. Norton 210 1$aIthaca, NY : $cCornell University Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 847 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-8014-3354-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 815-820) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tI. POET: 1868-1899 -- $tII. PEDAGOGUE: 1900-1908 -- $tIII. POLITICIAN: 1909-1918 -- $tIV. PROPHET: 1919-1933 -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aStefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important and influential poets to have written in German. His work, in its originality and impact, easily ranks with that of Goethe, Holderlin, or Rilke. Yet George's reach extended far beyond the sphere of literature. Particularly during his last three decades, George gathered around himself a group of men who subscribed to his homoerotic and idiosyncratic vision of life and sought to transform that vision into reality. George considered his circle to be the embodiment and defender of the "real" but "secret" Germany, opposed to the false values of contemporary bourgeois society. Some of his disciples, friends, and admirers were themselves historians, philosophers, and poets. Their works profoundly affected the intellectual and cultural attitudes of Germany's elite during the critical postwar years of the Weimar Republic. Essentially conservative in temperament and outlook, George and his circle occupy a central, but problematic, place in the rise of proto-fascism in Germany. Their own surrogate state offered a miniature model of a future German state: enthusiastic followers submitting themselves without question to the figure and will of a charismatic leader believed to be in possession of mysterious, even quasi-divine, powers.When he died several months after the Nazi takeover, George was one of the most famous and revered figures in Germany. Today the importance of George and his circle has largely been forgotten. In this, the first full biography of George to appear in any language, Robert E. Norton traces the poet's life and rise to fame. 606 $aPoets, German$y20th century$vBiography 607 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPoets, German 676 $a831/.8 676 $aB 700 $aNorton$b Robert E., $0175653 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819194503321 996 $aSecret Germany$9542143 997 $aUNINA