The Poet and the University: Stefan George among the Scholars

Edited by Paul Fleming and Peter Uwe Hohendahl

Introduction
Paul Fleming and Peter Uwe Hohendahl

The Poet as Cultural Savior: Friedrich Gundolf’s Goethe
Ernst Osterkamp

Critic or Prophet? The George Circle Reads Nietzsche
Peter Uwe Hohendahl

“Geheimes Deutschland”: George’s Biopoetics
Carsten Strathausen

Contested Legacies of “German” Friendship: Max Kommerell’s The Poet as Leader in German Classicism
Elke Siegel

Secret Germany / Crooked Germany: Ernst H. Kantorowicz
Paul Fleming

Edgar Salin and Social Theory in the Circle around Stefan George
Russell A. Berman

Ernst H. Kantorowicz as Reflected in His Letters
Janus C. Gudian

Three Samples from the Forthcoming Annotated Edition of the Letters of Ernst H. Kantorowicz (1895–1963)

“The creature that can still survive”: Walter Benjamin on Mickey Mouse and Rhythmic Movement
Stéphane Symons

Critical Theory of the Contemporary

Brexit, Immigration, and Populism
Russell A. Berman

Brexit, Post-liberalism, and the Politics of Paradox
Adrian Pabst

European Union and Holy Roman Empire
David Pan

A New Special Path for Germany
Jürgen Kocka

The Revolt against the Elites; or, the New Populist Wave: An Interview
Pierre-André Taguieff