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Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought /
Contrary to his usual portrayal as a disinterested aesthete, Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt is characterised as an original social and political thinker in Richard Sigurdson's timely book Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought. Burckhardt's thinking on a number of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: A New Dimension to Burckhardt?
- Part One: Burckhardt and the Birth of Cultural History
- 1. A Historian in Troubled Times
- 2. Cultural versus Political History: Burckhardt and Ranke
- 3. Burckhardt's Cultural History: Philosophy, Style, and Poetry
- Part Two: Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought
- 4. Elements: Scepticism, Organicism, and Human Nature
- 5. Themes: Freedom, the State, and Society
- 6. Burckhardt and Nietzsche: Two Critiques of Modernity
- Conclusion: An Astute Political Thinker
- Notes
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects