Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought / / Richard Sigurdson.
Contrary to his usual portrayal as a disinterested aesthete, Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt is characterised as an original social and political thinker in Richard Sigurdson's timely book Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought. Burckhardt's thinking on a number of...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: A New Dimension to Burckhardt?
- Part One: Burckhardt and the Birth of Cultural History
- 1. A Historian in Troubled Times
- 2. Cultural versus Political History: Burckhardt and Ranke
- 3. Burckhardt's Cultural History: Philosophy, Style, and Poetry
- Part Two: Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought
- 4. Elements: Scepticism, Organicism, and Human Nature
- 5. Themes: Freedom, the State, and Society
- 6. Burckhardt and Nietzsche: Two Critiques of Modernity
- Conclusion: An Astute Political Thinker
- Notes
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects