Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226305004 (0226305007)
Publish date: April 15th 2002
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 622
Edition language: English
Lionel Gossman is a (now emeritus) professor of Romance languages and literatures at Princeton, so one would not expect him to produce a 600 page history of the second city in the German speaking portion of Switzerland. Not only are most of the sources in German, but historians have a professional p...
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