| Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas Contributor(s): Gossman, Lionel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226305007 ISBN-13: 9780226305004 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2002 Annotation: Teemingly rich and wondrously entertaining."-Edward T. Oakes, "First Things" This remarkable history tells the story of the city-republic of Basel in the nineteenth century, and of four major thinkers who shaped its intellectual life: historian Jacob Burckhardt, philologist Johann Jacob Bachofen, theologian Franz Overbeck, and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Study in Unseasonable Ideas |
| Physical Information: 1.35" H x 6.06" W x 9.12" (1.90 lbs) 622 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 |