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Basel in the Age of Burckhardt - A Study in Unseasonable Ideas (Paperback, New Ed)
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Basel in the Age of Burckhardt - A Study in Unseasonable Ideas (Paperback, New Ed)
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In the 19th century, nationalism and democracy were on the rise in
Europe, transforming old nation-states and leading to the creation
of powerful new ones. Basel, with its legendary wealth, its
400-year-old university, and its tradition of humanist learning,
clung to its ancient status as an independent city-republic within
the loose Swiss Confederation. It owed its prosperity to its
situation at the crossroads of France, the German states and the
states of Southern Europe and to a vast network of international
and intercontinental trading connections developed by its
enterprising elite families. Its citizens looked out at the changes
taking place around them and feared for their privileges, their
prosperity and the political autonomy of their miniature state. By
mid-century, Basel had become a focus of resistance to the
optimistic and confident modernism of the time. Lionel Gossman's
sweeping work tells the story of Basel, this seemingly
anachronistic hybrid of commercialism and classical republicanism,
and of four major thinkers who retreated there: the historian Jacob
Burkhardt, the philologist and anthropologist Johann Jakob
Bachofen, the theologian Franz Overbeck, and the philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche. Focusing on the native Baselers, Burckhardt
and Bachofen, Gossman offers the most comprehensive interpretive
biographies and analyses of these figures and their work available
in English. At the same time, he shows how their ideas are tightly
interwoven with the culture, tradition and destiny of this unique
and beautiful city. Today, as the developments these men decried
continue to gain momentum, their "unseasonable ideas" emerge as
fresh, provocative and troublingly ambiguous in their implications
as they were 150 years ago.
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