Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages Sidgwick Avenue 澳门六合彩开奖记录 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
Martin Ruehl took his BA in History (starred First) from 澳门六合彩开奖记录 and his PhD, also in History, from Princeton University (advisors: Anthony Grafton and Suzanne Marchand), with a dissertation on the idea of the Renaissance in modern German thought. After a Research Fellowship at Queens鈥� College (1999-2003), he joined Sidney Sussex as College Lecturer and Director of Studies in History. Between 2007 and 2017, he was University Lecturer in the German Department and Director of Studies in MML at Trinity Hall.听He was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2013-14 and at the Martin Luther University in Halle (2020-21). In 2019, he was awarded a Ford Foundation Scholarship and held a Senior Research Fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. As Chair of the Management Committee at 澳门六合彩开奖记录 (2016-18), he helped launch the new joint degree in History & Modern Languages.
Dr Ruehl teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of German ideas, with a particular focus on Romanticism, Hegel and Marx, German philhellenism, the Conservative Revolution, and Nazi ideology. At the undergraduate level, he supervises both History and Thought topics in Ge1, Ge2, Ge10 and Ge11. On the MPhil in Literature and Culture, he regularly teaches the Core Course seminars on 鈥淐ulture and Politics: from Marx to Adorno鈥澨齛nd a Module entitled 鈥淓nlightenment and its Critics from Kant to Heidegger鈥�. On the MPhil in Film and Screen Studies, he has been responsible for the Core Course seminar on 鈥淔ilm and History鈥�. Dr Ruehl welcomes requests to supervise graduate research in modern German history, philosophy, theory, and film.
In February 2017, he was awarded the Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence.
Dr Ruehl specializes in the intellectual history of modern Germany. His research to date has focused on the ideas and ideologies that shaped German society and culture from Bismarck to Hitler, in particular the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and its reception since the 1890s.听He has published books and articles on Nietzsche, Burckhardt, Thomas Mann, Ernst Kantorowicz, German historicism and grecophilia.听His monograph The Italian Renaissance and the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930 (澳门六合彩开奖记录 2015) was shortlisted for the Gladstone History Book Prize of the Royal Historical Society. The recipient of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, Dr Ruehl is currently writing a book on German听debates about free and unfree labour from the Enlightenment to the Third Reich.
Research supervision
Dr Ruehl has supervised PhD dissertations on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Bachofen's听Mutterrecht, the idea of Europe in the Weimar Republic, philosophers under Nazism, representations of slavery in nineteenth-century German literature, historiographical controversies in the early Federal Republic, utopian thinking in the Frankfurt School, the films of Alexander Kluge, dystopian fiction in inter-war Germany, the theory and praxis of anti-fascism in Hamburg鈥檚 Sternschanze district, Goethe鈥檚 idea of the beautiful soul and eighteenth-century salon culture, the 鈥楯ewish Question鈥� in Germany during World War I, Schopenhauer鈥檚 Indian sources, and other topics. His current doctoral students work on R.W. Fassbinder鈥檚 cinema of provocation, Leopold von Ranke, Wagner鈥檚 concept of the 鈥榯otal work of art鈥�, the popularization of history in the second half of the nineteenth century, the politics of German historiography from Treitschke to Meinecke, German philhellenism after Nietzsche and Burckhardt, and other topics.
Dr Ruehl welcomes requests to supervise doctoral and MPhil theses听on topics in modern German intellectual and cultural history, and more generally in the history of historiography and the history of the humanities.
Key Publications
- , Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter听2023 (ed. with C. Schubert)
- , 澳门六合彩开奖记录: 澳门六合彩开奖记录 University Press听2015
- 鈥樷��, Arion 22, 2 (Fall/Winter 2014), pp. 129-189
- 鈥樷��,听Historische Zeitschrift听296, 1 (2013), pp. 49-83
- , London: Palgrave 2012 (ed. with K. Machtans)
- , Rochester: Camden House 2011 (ed. with M. Lane)
- , Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp听2009 (ed. with M. Heinz)
- 鈥�Politeia 1871: Nietzsche contra Wagner on the Greek State鈥�, , No. 79 (2003), pp. 61-86
- , London: Institute of Classical Studies 2003听(ed. with I. Gildenhard)
- 鈥樷��,听Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 63 (2000), pp. 187-242
Other Publications
- 鈥楲鈥檌nvention de la modernit茅: La Renaissance de Burckhardt reconsid茅r茅e鈥�, in: V. Ferrer and J.-L. Fournel (eds), Renaissances. Constructions, usages et migrations d鈥檜ne cat茅gorie historiographique, Paris: Droz 2024, pp. 87-111
- 鈥楯acob Burckhardt鈥�, in: Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 21 (1800-1914), ed. David Thomas and John A. Chesworth, Boston: Brill 2024
- 鈥楴ietzsche鈥檚 New Order: The Political after the Death of God鈥�, in: M. Ruehl and C. Schubert (eds), Nietzsche鈥檚 Perspectives on the Political, Berlin and New York: De Gruyter 2023, pp. 17-33
- 鈥楢 Centaur at the Edge of the Forest: Jacob Burckhardt as Cultural Historian鈥�, in: S. Bauer and S. Ditchfield (eds), A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt鈥檚 Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered, Proceedings of the British Academy 245, Oxford:听Oxford University Press听2022, pp. 46-75
- 鈥楾he Mother of Modernity: Jacob Burckhardt and the Idea of the Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Germany鈥�, in: E. Podoksik (ed.), Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany, Leiden and Boston: Brill 2019, pp. 155-189
- 鈥楳odern Intellectual History 鈥� A Roundtable Discussion鈥� (with David Armitage and Michele Battini), Ricerche di Storia Politica 3 (2018), pp. 323-334
- 鈥楯acob Burckhardt und der Islam鈥�,听Zeitschrift f眉r Ideengeschichte听12, 5 (Spring 2018), pp. 11-22
- 听鈥楪ermany: A Winter鈥檚 Tale 鈥� Anselm Kiefer at the Royal Academy鈥�,听Art & Christianity听80 (Winter 2015), pp. 8-10
- 鈥楪erman Horror Stories: Teutomania and the Ghosts of Tacitus鈥�,听Arion听22, 2 (Fall/Winter 2014), pp. 129-189
- 鈥楢esthetic Fundamentalism in Weimar Poetry: Stefan George and his Circle, 1918-1933鈥�, in: P. Gordon and J.P. McCormick (eds),听Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2013, pp. 240-272
- 鈥業ntroduction鈥�, in: K. Machtans and M.A. Ruehl (eds),听Hitler 鈥� Films from Germany: History, Cinema, and Politics since 1945, London: Palgrave 2012, pp. 1-27
- 鈥業ntroduction鈥�, in: M. Lane and M.A. Ruehl (eds),听A Poet鈥檚 Reich: Politics and Culture in the George Circle, Rochester: Camden House 2011, pp. 1-23
- 鈥樷�淚mperium transcendat hominem鈥�:听Reich听补苍诲听Herrschaft听in Ernst Kantorowicz鈥檚听Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite鈥�, in: M. Lane and M.A. Ruehl (eds),听A Poet鈥檚 Reich: Politics and Culture in the George Circle, Rochester: Camden House 2011, pp. 204-251
- 鈥楴颈别迟锄蝉肠丑别蝉听骋枚迟锄别苍诲盲尘尘别谤耻苍驳鈥�,听Nietzscheforschung: Jahrbuch der Nietzsche-Gesellschaft听16 (2009), pp. 1-13 (with A.U. Sommer)
- 鈥楴achwort鈥�, in: M. Heinz and M.A. Ruehl (eds),听Quentin Skinner: Visionen des Politischen, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp 2009, pp. 253-286 (with M. Heinz)
- 鈥楢 Master from Germany: Thomas Mann, Albrecht D眉rer and the Making of a National Icon鈥�,听Oxford German Studies听38, 1 (2009), pp. 63-108
- 鈥樷�淎n Uncanny Re-Awakening鈥�: Nietzsche鈥檚 Renascence of the Renaissance out of the Spirit of Jacob Burckhardt鈥�, in: M. Dries (ed.),听Nietzsche on Time and History, Berlin and New York: De Gruyter 2008, pp. 227-267
- 鈥楰entaurenk盲mpfe: Jacob Burckhardt und das Allgemeine鈥�, in: M. Hagner and M. Laubichler (eds),听Der Hochsitz des Wissens: Das Allgemeine als wissenschaftlicher Wert, Zurich and Munich: Diaphanes Verlag 2006, pp. 23-72
- 鈥楤濒耻迟,听bellezza, B眉rgertugend: Thomas Manns听Fiorenza听und der Renaissancekult um 1900鈥�, in: C. Emden and D. Midgley (eds),听German Literature, History and the Nation, Oxford: Peter Lang 2004, pp. 189-229
- 鈥楧eath in Florence: Thomas Mann and the Ideologies of听Renaissancismus听at the Fin de Si猫cle鈥�, in: S. Marchand and D. Lindenfeld (eds),听Germany at the Fin de Si猫cle: Culture, Politics and Ideas, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 2004, pp. 186-227
- 鈥楴ietzsche und Basel鈥�,听Nietzsche-Studien听30 (2001), pp. 498-508
Other Professional Activities
This is an article I wrote a while ago听on Nietzsche for The Independent (never mind the silly URL):
