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.
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9780773564206
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2021
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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