Main entry:

Gossman, Lionel, author.

Title & Author:

Basel in the age of Burckhardt : a study in unseasonable ideas / Lionel Gossman.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Description:

xii, 608 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-579) and index.
pt. I. Nineteenth-Century Basel. 1. From "A Community of Citizens" to "A Conglomeration of Individuals" 2. "A Kind of Family Government": The Ribbon Lords and Their World. 3. "City of Miracles": Culture, Religion, and Money. 4. "To Reconcile the Progressive Tendencies of the Time with Resistance to Them": Neohumanist Ideals and Modern Reality. 5. "An Archimedean Point Outside Events": Anachronism and Modernity -- Parochialism and Cosmopolitanism. Interlude: Portrait of a City from Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe -- pt. II. Johann Jacob Bachofen. 6. "An Exile in My Own Homeland": Withdrawal and Renunciation. 7. "Far from One's Father's House": A Prepatriarchal Order. 8. "At Its Greatest in Its Graves": The Dark Side of Antiquity.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226304981 (alk. paper)
9780226304984 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897.
Bachofen, Johann Jakob, 1815-1887.
Burckhardt, Jacob.
Bachofen, Johann Jakob 1815-1887
Burckhardt, Jacob 1818-1897
Burckhardt, Jacob, (1818-1897)
Bachofen, Johann Jakob, (1815-1887)
Historians Switzerland Basel Biography.
Intellectuals Switzerland Basel Biography.
Culture Philosophy History 19th century.
Historiens Suisse Bâle Biographies.
Intellectuels Suisse Bâle Biographies.
Culture Histoire Philosophie 19e siècle.
Culture Philosophy
Historians
Intellectual life
Intellectuals
Geestesgeschiedenis.
Intellectuels Suisse Bâle (Suisse)
Culture Philosophie 19e siècle.
Historiens Suisse Bâle (Suisse)
Basel (Switzerland) Intellectual life 19th century.
Bâle (Suisse) Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle.
Switzerland Basel
Basel

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213626
Call No.: DQ389.6 .G6 2000
Status: Available