Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas

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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 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226305007

ISBN13:9780226305004

Release Date:April 2002

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:622 Pages

Weight:1.90 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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