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 Revolutions 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.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references: p. [305]-319
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 907/.202
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- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0773510273 9780773564206
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- D15.B8
- LCCN Item number
- H56 2000eb
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- 1 electronic text (xii, 327 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200398 (OCoLC)181843436 (CaOOCEL)400865
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Abbreviations 12
- Introduction 16
- PART I: BURCKHARDT AND BASEL 42
- 1 Basel and Revolution 44
- 2 Student Years 77
- 3 Swiss Liberalism and Political Journalism 101
- 4 "Eminus Conservator": Burckhardt and Modernity 126
- PART II: BURCKHARDT AND HISTORY 150
- 5 History: Science versus Poetry 152
- 6 Burckhardt and the Development of Cultural History 180
- 7 Burckhardt and Anschauung 212
- 8 Burckhardt and Contemporary Art 245
- 9 The Search for an Autonomous History of Art 283
- Conclusion 311
- Bibliography 318
- Index 334
- A 334
- B 334
- C 335
- D 336
- E 336
- F 336
- G 336
- H 336
- I 337
- J 337
- K 337
- L 337
- M 338
- N 338
- O 338
- P 338
- R 338
- S 339
- T 339
- U 339
- V 339
- W 339
- Z 340
