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Authors: John Roderick Hinde
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity -- the first major study in English dedicated entirely to Burckhardt -- offers a compelling and timely analysis of
Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Contrary to his usual portrayal as a disinterested aesthete, Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt is characterised as an original social and political thin
The Greeks and Greek Civilization
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Authors: Jacob Burckhardt
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-10-21 - Publisher: Macmillan

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In 1872 Burckhardt, one of the preeminent historians of classical and Renaissance culture, presented this revolutionary work, which portrays ancient Greek cultu
Basel in the Age of Burckhardt
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Authors: Lionel Gossman
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-04-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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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 intellect
Baroque and the Political Language of Formalism (1845 - 1945): Burckhardt, Wölfflin, Gurlitt, Brinckmann, Sedlmayr
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This study in intellectual history places the art historical concept of the Baroque amidst world events, political thought, and the political views of art histo