Jacob Burckhardt and the crisis of modernity / John R. Hinde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinde, John Roderick, 1964-

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 29.

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historians--Switzerland--Biography.

Historians.

Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897.

Burckhardt, Jacob.

Physical Description:

xii, 327 p. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Unlike conventional accounts, which characterize him as an apolitical aesthete, Hinde shows us that Burckhardt was as a thinker of profound importance whose conservative anti-modernism ranks him with his colleague Friedrich Nietzsche.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Burckhardt and Basel

Basel and Revolution

Student Years

Swiss Liberalism and Political Journalism

"Eminus Conservator"1 -Burckhardt and Modernity

Burckhardt and History

History: Science versus Poetry

Burckhardt and the Development of Cultural History

Burckhardt and Anschauung

Burckhardt and Contemporary Art

The Search for an Autonomous History of Art

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-319) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85656-1

9786612856563

0-7735-6420-9

OCLC:

929120918