Basel in the age of Burckhardt / a study in unseasonable ideas / Lionel Gossman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gossman, Lionel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897.

Burckhardt, Jacob.

Bachofen, Johann Jakob, 1815-1887.

Bachofen, Johann Jakob.

Culture--Philosophy.

History.

Intellectuals.

Historians.

Basel (Switzerland)--Intellectual life--19th century.

Basel (Switzerland).

Historians--Switzerland--Basel--Biography.

Intellectuals--Switzerland--Basel--Biography.

Culture--Philosophy--History--19th century.

Culture.

Switzerland--Basel.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 608 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Summary:

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"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [455]-579) and index.

ISBN:

0226304981

OCLC:

42022407