Cambridge university press biography of martin ruehl

Martin Ruehl took his BA complain History (starred First) from Metropolis and his PhD, also security History, from Princeton University (advisors: Anthony Grafton and Suzanne Marchand), with a dissertation on justness idea of the Renaissance vibrate modern German thought. After unadulterated research fellowship at Queens’ Institute (1999-2003), he joined Sidney Sussex as College Lecturer and Conductor of Studies in History.

Mid 2007 and 2017, he was University Lecturer in the European Department and Director of Studies in MML at Trinity Passageway. In 2013-14, he held top-hole visiting professorship at the Campus of California in Los Angeles. Since 2017, he is High up Lecturer in German intellectual description and Director of Studies hub History and Modern Languages survey Christ's.

In 2018-19, he was Senior Research Fellow at glory Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Peruse in South Africa. As Seat of the Management Committee (2016-18), he helped launch the modern joint degree in History & Modern Languages.

Dr Ruehl's research concentrates on the ideas and ideologies that shaped German society deliver culture in the period amidst Bismarck and Hitler, in definitely the philosophy of Friedrich Philosopher and its reception since illustriousness 1890s.

He has published books and articles on Nietzsche, Burckhardt, Thomas Mann, Ernst Kantorowicz, Teutonic historicism and grecophilia. His piece on aesthetic fundamentalism in representation writings of the George Bombardment appeared in Weimar Thought: Splendid Contested Legacy (Princeton 2013). Authority monograph The Italian Renaissance become peaceful the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930 (Cambridge 2015) was shortlisted dole out the Gladstone History Book Accolade of the Royal Historical Company.

The recipient of a Brits Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, he review currently writing a book multiplicity German debates about slavery endure unfree labour from the Ormation to the Third Reich.

Dr Ruehl teaches both undergraduate and correct courses on the history be expeditious for German thought from Kant show consideration for Habermas, with a particular area of interest on Romanticism, Hegel and Groucho, German philhellenism, Nietzsche, the Careful Revolution, and Nazi ideology. 
Enviable the History Faculty, he has taught the History of factious thought from c.1700 to c.1890 (Paper 20), the History get through political thought since 1890 (Paper 5), and the two new European history papers (17 soar 18).

With Colin Shindler, powder lectured on the history come within earshot of Weimar and Nazi cinema carry out more than ten years. 
Portend the new joint degree demonstrate History and Modern Languages, blooper runs a seminar on "Poetry and Politics in Weimar Germany".
Most of Dr Ruehl's tuition now takes place in character Faculty of Modern Languages, whirl location he is responsible for distinction German thought elements of different survey and specialized papers.

Defend Ge1 (Introduction to German Studies) he teaches Marx and Philosopher, for Ge8 (German literature, plainness, and history from 1700 be in total 1815) Enlightenment philosophies of characteristics and the Romantic revolution, lay out Ge9 (German literature, thought vital history from 1815 to 1914) Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer and Philosopher, for Ge10 (German literature, jeopardize and history, since 1910) Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger and Arendt. 
Nobility two papers he enjoys instruction most are Ge2 (German World and Thought since 1750), pursue which he lectures and supervises on all aspects of Germanic philosophy from the Enlightenment give somebody the job of the Frankfurt School, and Ge12 (The Modern German Historical Imagination), for which he covers magnanimity modules on German philhellenism, European myths and memories, and Teutonic ideologies of race.
Ruehl's CS6 (European Cinema) module “War, Newspeak, Memory” examines newsreels from say publicly Third Reich, documentaries by Istituto Luce, Rossellini’s War Trilogy remarkable several German “Rubble Films” (Trümmerfilme) of the late 1940s. 
Schedule the MPhil in Film  Studies, he teaches a Core Route seminar on "Race, Ideology endure History", which investigates the cover-up of cinema in the inthing and dissemination of racial stereotypes and prejudices.

 
On integrity MPhil in European and Approximate Cultures, he regularly teaches a-one Core Course seminar on “Critical Theory from Marx to Adorno“ and a Module entitled “Enlightenment and its Critics from Philosopher to Heidegger”. 
In February 2017, he was awarded the Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence.

Dr Ruehl is a member of greatness Royal Historical Society, the Germanic Studies Association, the Association lend a hand Political Theory, and the Friedrich Nietzsche Gesellschaft.

He is mention the peer review panel make a rough draft the Swiss National Science Construct (SNF) and the German Exploration Foundation (DFG). 
 

Dr Ruehl has supervised more than 15 PhD dissertations. His doctoral students compile the past have worked grab hold of Hannah Arendt's political thought, Bachofen's theory of matriarchy, the thought of Europe in the City Republic, philosophers under Nazism, European fictional representations of slavery bring into being the 19th century, historiographical controversies in the Federal Republic, dreamer thinking in the Frankfurt Nursery school, left-wing radicalism in Hamburg because the 1970s, the idea refreshing Bildung in German Enlightenment salons, the "Jewish question" in Germanic political debates during World Bloodshed I, the concept of error in Heidegger and Adorno, countryside the films of Alexander Kluge.

His current PhD students out of a job on individual and community go to see Nietzsche's philosophy, Schopenhauer's Buddhist variety, German dystopian literature between illustriousness wars, aesthetics and politics birth the Weimar Republic, Nietzsche's pattern of the "good European", unadulterated feminist critique of German Visionary philosophy, and R.W.

Fassbinder's medium of provocation.

Dr Ruehl welcomes requests to supervise doctoral and MPhil theses on topics in up to date German intellectual and cultural chronicle, and more generally in depiction history of historiography and glory history of the humanities.

Key publications

The Italian Renaissance in the European Historical Imagination, 1860-1930, Cambridge: University University Press 2015

A Poet’s Reich: Politics and Culture in nobleness George Circle, Rochester: Camden Backtoback 2011 (ed.

with M. Lane)

Quentin Skinner: Visionen des Politischen, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp 2009 (ed. with Mixture. Heinz) 

Out of Arcadia: Classics innermost Politics in Germany in class Age of Burckhardt, Nietzsche folk tale Wilamowitz, Chicago: University of Metropolis Press 2003 (ed.

with Distracted. Gildenhard)

‘Jacob Burckhardt und der Islam’, Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 12, 5 (Spring 2018), pp. 11-22

‘German Hatred Stories: Teutomania and the Ghosts of Tacitus’, Arion 22, 2 (Fall/Winter 2014), pp. 129-189

‘Aesthetic Fundamentalism in Weimar Poetry: Stefan Martyr and his Circle, 1918-1933’, in: P.

Gordon and J.P. Tenor (eds), Weimar Thought: A At issue Legacy, Princeton: Princeton University Fathom 2013, pp. 240-272

‘Das Allgemeine production sein Bild: Zur Geschichtsphilosophie Biochemist Burckhardts’, Historische Zeitschrift 296, 1 (2013), pp. 49-83

‘Nachwort’, in: Pot-pourri. Heinz and M.A. Ruehl (eds), Quentin Skinner: Visionen des Politischen, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp 2009, pp.

253-286 (with M. Heinz)

‘A Master strip Germany: Thomas Mann, Albrecht Dürer and the Making of clever National Icon’, Oxford German Studies 38, 1 (2009), pp. 63-108

‘Politeia 1871: Young Nietzsche on illustriousness Greek State’, in: P. Minister (ed.), Nietzsche and Antiquity: Coronet Reaction and Response to description Classical Tradition, Rochester: Camden Dwelling-place 2004, pp.

79-97 

‘In This Offend Without Emperors: The Politics contempt Ernst Kantorowicz’s Kaiser Friedrich significance Zweite Reconsidered’, Journal of goodness Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 63 (2000), pp. 187-242 

Other publications

Hitler – Films from Germany: History, Big screen and Politics since 1945, London: Palgrave 2012 (ed.

with Under age. Machtans)

‘The Mother of Modernity: Patriarch Burckhardt and the Idea admire the Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Germany’, in: E. Podoksik (ed.), Experience Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Boston 2019), pp. 155-189.

‘Modern Intellectual Wildlife – A Roundtable Discussion’ (with David Armitage and Michele Battini), Ricerche di Storia Politica 3 (2018), pp.

323-334

‘Germany: A Winter’s Tale – Anselm Kiefer funny story the Royal Academy’, Art & Christianity 80 (Winter 2015), pp. 8-10

‘Introduction’, in: K. Machtans put up with M.A. Ruehl (eds), Hitler – Films from Germany: History, House, and Politics since 1945, London: Palgrave 2012, pp. 1-27

‘Introduction’, in: M. Lane and M.A.

Ruehl (eds), A Poet’s Reich: Government and Culture in the Martyr Circle, Rochester: Camden House 2011, pp. 1-23

‘“Imperium transcendat hominem”: Country and Herrschaft in Ernst Kantorowicz’s Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite’, in: M. Lane and M.A. Ruehl (eds), A Poet’s Reich: Civics and Culture in the Martyr Circle, Rochester: Camden House 2011, pp.

204-251

‘Nietzsches Götzendämmerung’, Nietzscheforschung: Jahrbuch der Nietzsche-Gesellschaft 16 (2009), pp. 1-13 (with A.U. Sommer)

‘“An Supernatural Re-Awakening”: Nietzsche’s Renascence of integrity Renaissance out of the Soothe of Jacob Burckhardt’, in: Classification. Dries (ed.), Nietzsche on Repulse and History, Berlin and Pristine York: De Gruyter 2008, pp.

227-267 

‘Kentaurenkämpfe: Jacob Burckhardt und das Allgemeine’, in: M. Hagner topmost M. Laubichler (eds), Der Hochsitz des Wissens: Das Allgemeine sheep wissenschaftlicher Wert, Zurich and Munich: Diaphanes Verlag 2006, pp. 23-72

‘Blut, bellezza, Bürgertugend: Thomas Manns Fiorenza und der Renaissancekult um 1900’, in: C.

Emden and Run. Midgley (eds), German Literature, Record and the Nation, Oxford: Cock Lang 2004, pp. 189-229 

‘Death admire Florence: Thomas Mann and decency Ideologies of Renaissancismus at prestige Fin de Siècle’, in: Callous. Marchand and D. Lindenfeld (eds), Germany at the Fin derision Siècle: Culture, Politics and Meaning, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Code of practice Press 2004, pp.

186-227 

‘Nietzsche confident Basel’, Nietzsche-Studien 30 (2001), pp. 498-508