Basel in the age of Burckhardt
Subtitle: a study in unseasonable ideas
By: Lionel Gossman.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
Subjects: Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897.; Bachofen, Johann Jakob, 1815-1887.; Historians -- Switzerland -- Basel -- Biography.; Intellectuals -- Switzerland -- Basel -- Biography.; Culture -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century.; Basel (Switzerland) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Lionel Gossman's 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 Burckhardt, the philologist and anthropologist Johann Jacob Bachofen, the theologian Franz Overbeck, and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-579) and index.