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Jacob Burckhardt and the crisis of modernity
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Jacob Burckhardt and the crisis of modernity

Author: John Roderick Hinde
Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000.
Series: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas, 29.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Offers a compelling and timely interpretative and synthetic analysis of Burckhardt's challenge to the values and assumptions of modern society, placing it within the context of his political ideology  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Jacob Burckhardt; Jacob Burckhardt; Jacob Burckhardt; Jacob Burckhardt
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Roderick Hinde
ISBN: 0773510273 9780773510272 0773510273 9780773510272
OCLC Number: 43279700
Description: xii, 327 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Burckhardt and Basel --
Basel and Revolution --
Student Years --
Swiss Liberalism and Political Journalism --
"Eminus Conservator": 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.
Series Title: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas, 29.
Responsibility: John R. Hinde.
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