Letters of Jacob Burckhardt
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- Hardcover
328 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2001
Summary
Burckhardt was the most renowned of the historians of the nineteenth century to predict, with astonishing accuracy, the totalitarian direction that history could take – and which history in fact did take in the twentieth century. It was in his letters, rather than in his lectures or longer works, that Burckhardt most directly addressed the currents of intellectual thought and social and political order – or disorder – of Europe in the nineteenth century. It was in his letters, for instance, t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780865971226 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0865971226 |
| Author: | Jacob Burkhardt |
| Publisher: | Liberty Fund Inc |
| Imprint: | Liberty Fund Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2001 |
| Weight: | 649g |
| Dimensions: | 150mm x 230mm |
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“There is much wisdom and insight in Jacob Burckhardt’s words. He studied history carefully and attempted to learn from the past.” –Allan C. Brownfeld, America’s Future
“He writes as an extremely thoughtful and good human being, one who had absorbed during his lifetime an incredible number of facts, shaping them by reflection into meanings which make them sueful to the reader.” –Manas
About The Author
Jacob Burkhardt
Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) has been called ‘the most civilised historian of the nineteenth century’, and he was certainly one of the greatest historians of art and culture of his time. A Professor at the University of Basel, Burckhardt was especially knowledgeable about the Renaissance.
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