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Erwin Panofsky and the Renascence of the Renaissance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Carl Landauer
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It has long been understood that historians, literary critics, and art historians who write about past cultures use those cultures for present purposes, whether by turning Periclean Athens into an ideal for present-day America or the fall of the Roman empire into an ominous signal for modern empires. German humanists who sought refuge from Nazi Germany had, however, special reasons to use their cultural studies as a strategy of escape. Erich Auerbach in exile in Istanbul and Ernst Robert Curtius in “inner exile” in Bonn provided narratives of European literary history that minimized the contribution of their native culture, and in so reworking the narrative of Western literature, they were able to reshape their own identities. Their reconstructions of past cultures can thus be read as attempts at self-reconstruction. Ultimately, however, the attempt by such scholars to distance themselves from German culture often faltered on the very Germanness of their cultural reconstructions.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , Summer 1994 , pp. 255 - 281
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1994

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For their help on this essay, the author would like to thank R. Howard Bloch, Joan Hart, Martin Jay, and Fred H. Matthews.

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