Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas

by Lionel Gossman

Book Overview

This remarkable history tells the story of the independent city-republic of Basel in the nineteenth century, and of four major thinkers who shaped its intellectual history: the historian Jacob Burckhardt, the philologist and anthropologist Johann Jacob Bachofen, the theologian Franz Overbeck, and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

"Remarkable and exceptionally readable . . . There is wit, wisdom and an immense erudition on every page."--Jonathan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226305007
• ISBN13: 9780226305004
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 622 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"