Basel In The Age Of Burckhardt

Author : Lionel Gossman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226305004
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basel in the Age of Burckhardt written by Lionel Gossman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-04-15 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable history tells the story of the independent city-republic of Basel in the nineteenth century, and of four major thinkers who shaped its intellectual history: the historian Jacob Burckhardt, the philologist and anthropologist Johann Jacob Bachofen, the theologian Franz Overbeck, and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. "Remarkable and exceptionally readable . . . There is wit, wisdom and an immense erudition on every page."—Jonathan Steinberg, Times Literary Supplement "Gossman's book, a product of many years of active contemplation, is a tour de force. It is at once an intellectual history, a cultural history of Basel and Europe, and an important contribution to the study of nineteenth-century historiography. Written with a grace and elegance that many aspire to, few seldom achieve, this is model scholarship."—John R. Hinde, American Historical Review

Author : Richard Franklin Sigurdson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802047809
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought written by Richard Franklin Sigurdson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to his usual portrayal as a disinterested aesthete, Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt is characterised as an original social and political thinker in Richard Sigurdson's timely book Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought. Burckhardt's thinking on a number of ideas - including the relationship between the individual and the mass, the tension between the ideals of equality and human excellence, and the role of the intellectual in the modern state - is the subject of insightful analysis, thus providing a rare investigation into Burckhardt's culture-critique of the nineteenth century. Other important aspects of Burckhardt's life that undoubtedly influenced both his historical and political thought, such as his ambiguous relationship with Friedrich Nietzsche, are carefully scrutinised in this groundbreaking analysis of the Swiss historian. Known primarily as an historian, Burckhardt's historical writings provide not only a powerful critique of his own times, but also a broad ranging political philosophy that can be placed within the larger German tradition of evaluating politics according to the values and standards of art and culture. Although Burckhardt himself expressed his scepticism towards general theories and claimed to be devoid of a personal philosophical position, through an examination of his works Sigurdson argues that both implicit and explicit political reflections and theories are recognisable.

Author : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : Birkhauser
ISBN 13 : 9780817613891
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Baselstadt II written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by Birkhauser. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : [London] : Routledge and K. Paul
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Constantine the Great written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by [London] : Routledge and K. Paul. This book was released on 1949 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429870213
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Constantine the Great (1949) written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republished in 1949, Jacob Burckhardt’s brilliant study, first published in Germany in 1852, has survived all its critics and presents today perhaps a more intelligible and a more valid picture of events, their nexus, and their relevance than any later study. This English version is apt to the moment. No epoch of remote history can be so relevant to modern interests as the period of transition between the ancient and the medieval world, when a familiar order of things visibly died and was supplanted by a new. Other transitions become apparent only in retrospect; that of the age of Constantine, like our own, was patent to contemporaries. Old institutions, in the sphere of culture as of government, had grown senile; economic balances were altered; peoples hitherto on the peripheries of civilization demanded attention, and a new and revolutionary social doctrine with an enormous emotional appeal was spread abroad by men with a religious zeal for a new and authoritarian cosmopolitanism and with a religious certainty that their end justified their means. For us, contemporary developments have made the analogy inescapable, but Jacob Burckhardt’s insight led him to a singularly clear apprehension of the meaning of the transition almost a century ago, and the analogy implicit in his book is the more impressive as it was unpremeditated.

Author : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136775749
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judgements on History and Historians written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Civilisation was in its pomp when Jacob Burckhardt delivered his Judgements on History and Historians; European Empires spanned the globe, while the modern age was being forged in the nationalist revolutions of 1848. As a tutor to the young Friedrich Nietzsche as well as one of the first historians to take 'culture' as his subject rather th

Author : Evonne Levy
Publisher : Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
ISBN 13 : 3796533973
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baroque and the Political Language of Formalism (1845 - 1945): Burckhardt, Wölfflin, Gurlitt, Brinckmann, Sedlmayr written by Evonne Levy and published by Schwabe Verlag (Basel). This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study in intellectual history places the art historical concept of the Baroque amidst world events, political thought, and the political views of art historians themselves. Exploring the political biographies and writings on the Baroque (primarily its architecture) of five prominent Germanophone figures, Levy gives a face to art history, showing its concepts arising in the world. From Jacob Burckhardt's still debated "Jesuit style" to Hans Sedlmayr's Reichsstil, the Baroque concepts of these German, Swiss and Austrian art historians, all politically conservative, and two of whom joined the Nazi party, were all took shape in reaction to immediate social and political circumstances. A central argument of the book is that basic terms of architectural history drew from a long established language of political thought. This vocabulary, applied in the formalisms of Wölfflin and Gurlitt, has endured as art history's unacknowledged political substrate for generations. Classic works, like Wölfflin's Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe are interpreted anew here, supported by new documents from the papers of each figure.

Author : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312244477
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greeks and Greek Civilization written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-10-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1872 Burckhardt, one of the preeminent historians of classical and Renaissance culture, presented this revolutionary work, which portrays ancient Greek culture as an aristocratic world and tyrannical state with minimal personal freedoms. This landmark culmination of 30 years of scholarship offers a rich cultural history of a fascinating society.

Author : Paul Bishop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135447888
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller, and Jung, Volume 1 written by Paul Bishop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Paul Bishop investigates the extent to which analytical psychology draws on concepts found in German classical aesthetics. It aims to place analytical psychology in the German-speaking tradition of Goethe and Schiller, with which Jung was well acquainted. Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics argues that analytical psychology appropriates many of its central notions from German classical aesthetics, and that, when seen in its intellectual historical context, the true originality of analytical psychology lies in its reformulation of key tenets of German classicism. Although the importance for Jung of German thought in general, and of Goethe and Schiller in particular, has frequently been acknowledged, until now it has never been examined in any detailed or systematic way. Through an analysis of Jung’s reception of Goethe and Schiller, Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics demonstrates the intellectual continuity within analytical psychology and the filiation of ideas from German classical aesthetics to Jungian thought. In this way it suggests that a rereading of analytical psychology in the light of German classical aesthetics offers an intellectually coherent understanding of analytical psychology. By uncovering the philosophical sources of analytical psychology, this first volume returns Jung’s thought to its core intellectual tradition, in the light of which analytical psychology gains new critical impact and fresh relevance for modern thought. Written in a scholarly yet accessible style, this book will interest students and scholars alike in the areas of analytical psychology, comparative literature, and the history of ideas.

Author : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : Liberty Fund
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on History written by Jacob Burckhardt and published by Liberty Fund. This book was released on 1979 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost alone among nineteenth-century historians, Jacob Burckhardt saw the totalitarian direction that history could take. This book (first published in English in 1943 as "Force and Freedom") is a guide to the study and comprehension of historical processes. Burckhardt makes a clear distinction between the state and the voluntary activities of society. He focuses on the nature and reciprocal interactions of the state, religion, and culture.