Jacob Burckhardt and the crisis of modernity
- Author/Creator:
- Hinde, John Roderick, 1964-
- Publication/Creation:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Jacob Burckhardt and the crisis of modernity John R. Hinde
- Series Titles:
- McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 29
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 29.
- Related/Included Titles:
- Front Matter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Abbreviations --
Introduction --
Burckhardt and Basel --
Basel and Revolution --
Student Years --
Swiss Liberalism and Political Journalism --
"Eminus Conservator"1 -Burckhardt and Modernity --
Burckhardt and History --
History: Science versus Poetry --
Burckhardt and the Development of Cultural History --
Burckhardt and Anschauung --
Burckhardt and Contemporary Art --
The Search for an Autonomous History of Art --
Conclusion --
Bibliography --
Index
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Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Burckhardt and Basel -- Basel and Revolution -- Student Years -- Swiss Liberalism and Political Journalism -- "Eminus Conservator"1 -Burckhardt and Modernity -- Burckhardt and History -- History: Science versus Poetry -- Burckhardt and the Development of Cultural History -- Burckhardt and Anschauung -- Burckhardt and Contemporary Art -- The Search for an Autonomous History of Art -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
- Summary:
- As a historian of the Renaissance and the rise of Christianity, Burckhardt was concerned with periods of social, political, and cultural transformation. Writing in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolutions and in the long shadow cast by the French Revolution of 1789, he observed the rise of industrial capitalism and mass politics with trepidation. He especially lamented the fate of the individual, whose creativity had shaped the glories of the Renaissance and ancient Greece but who was increasingly domesticated and commodified in modern society. Unlike conventional accounts, which characterize him as an apolitical aesthete, Hinde shows us that Burckhardt was as a thinker of profound importance whose conservative anti-modernism ranks him with his colleague Friedrich Nietzsche.
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xii, 327 p. ; 24 cm.
- General Note:
- Includes index.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936528519302486
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85656-1
9786612856563
0-7735-6420-9 - OCLC Number:
- 929120918
- Other Identifiers:
- doi: 10.1515/9780773564206
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