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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
Western Civilisation was in its pomp when Jacob Burckhardt
delivered his Judgements on History and Historians; European
Empires spanned the globe, while the modern age was being forged in
the nationalist revolutions of 1848. As a tutor to the young
Friedrich Nietzsche as well as one of the first historians to take
'culture' as his subject rather than the triumphs and travails of
kings and generals, Burckhardt was at the vanguard of this modern
sensibility. Ambitious in its scope, ranging from the days of
Ancient Egypt, through the Reformation to the time of Napoleon,
this is indeed a history of 'Western Civilization', written before
two monstrous world wars threw such a concept into disrepute.
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Der Cicerone (Hardcover)
Jacob Burckhardt
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Published in 1937: The author's work on the Renaissance in Italy is
too well known, not only to students of the period, but now a wider
circle of readers, for any introduction to be necessary.
Republished in 1949, Jacob Burckhardt's brilliant study, first
published in Germany in 1852, has survived all its critics and
presents today perhaps a more intelligible and a more valid picture
of events, their nexus, and their relevance than any later study.
This English version is apt to the moment. No epoch of remote
history can be so relevant to modern interests as the period of
transition between the ancient and the medieval world, when a
familiar order of things visibly died and was supplanted by a new.
Other transitions become apparent only in retrospect; that of the
age of Constantine, like our own, was patent to contemporaries. Old
institutions, in the sphere of culture as of government, had grown
senile; economic balances were altered; peoples hitherto on the
peripheries of civilization demanded attention, and a new and
revolutionary social doctrine with an enormous emotional appeal was
spread abroad by men with a religious zeal for a new and
authoritarian cosmopolitanism and with a religious certainty that
their end justified their means. For us, contemporary developments
have made the analogy inescapable, but Jacob Burckhardt's insight
led him to a singularly clear apprehension of the meaning of the
transition almost a century ago, and the analogy implicit in his
book is the more impressive as it was unpremeditated.
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