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Jacob Burckhardt and the crisis of modernity / by John R. Hinde

Author
Hinde, John Roderick, 1964-
Published
Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2000]
Copyright Date
©2000
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1 online resource (xii, 327 pages).
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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.
Summary
"Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity, the first major study in English dedicated entirely to Burckhardt, offers a compelling and timely interpretative and synthetic analysis of Burckhardt's unique challenge to the values and assumptions of modern society, placing his work in the context of his political ideology and work in history and art history. John Hinde provides a new assessment of Burckhardt's position, focusing on his lesser known writings." "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 Revolution 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 Burckhardt as an apolitical aesthete, Hinde shows us Burckhardt as a thinker of profound importance, whose conservative anti-modernism ranks him with his colleague Friedrich Nietzsche."--Jacket
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9780773564206 (electronic bk.)
0773564209 (electronic bk.)
0773510273
9780773510272
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-319) and index.
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