Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity
Download or Read eBook Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity PDF written by John Roderick Hinde and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : John Roderick Hinde |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0773510273 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780773510272 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity by : John Roderick Hinde
Book excerpt: Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity -- the first major study in English dedicated entirely to Burckhardt -- offers a compelling and timely analysis of Burckhardt's challenge to the values and assumptions of modern society. Unlike conventional accounts, which characterize him as an apolitical aesthete, John Hinde shows that Burckhardt was a thinker of profound importance whose conservative anti-modernism ranks him with Friedrich Nietzsche. Book jacket.
