The Letters of Jacob Burckhardt
Burckhardt was the most renowned of the historians of the nineteenth century to predict, with astonishing accuracy, the totalitarian direction that history could take -- and which history in fact did take in the twentieth century. It was in his letters, rather than in his lectures or longer works, that Burckhardt most directly addressed the currents of intellectual thought and social and political order -- or disorder -- of Europe in the nineteenth century. It was in his letters, for instance, that he warned that these currents portended the rise of a new kind of demagogue unique to the modern era. Such demagogues would, Burckhardt feared, re…
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Weitere Autoren: Dru, Alexander (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-86597-123-3
- EAN: 9780865971233
- Produktnummer: 4918389
- Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 267 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.0 cm x D2.5 cm 544 g
- Gewicht: 544
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 - 10 J.
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Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) has been called 'the most civilised historian of the nineteenth century', and he was certainly one of the greatest historians of art and culture of his time. A Professor at the University of Basel, Burckhardt was especially knowledgeable about the Renaissance.
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