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Basel in the Age of Burckhardt
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 Steinberg, Times Literary Supplement "Gossman's book, a product of many years of active contemplation, is a tour de force. It is at once an intellectual history, a cultural history of Basel and Europe, and an important contribution to the study of nineteenth-century historiography. Written with a grace and elegance that many aspire to, few seldom achieve, this is model scholarship."—John R. Hinde, American Historical Review
Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany, edited by Efraim Podoksik, is a collaborative project by leading scholars in German studies that examines the practices of theorising and researching in the humanities as pursued by German thinkers and scholars during the long nineteenth century, and the relevance of those practices for the humanities today. Each chapter focuses on a particular branch of the humanities, such as philosophy, history, classical philology, theology, or history of art. The volume both offers a broad overview of the history of German humanities and examines an array of particular cases that illustrate their inner dilemmas, ranging from Ranke’s engagement with the world of poetry to Max Weber’s appropriation of the notion of causality.
Secondary School Reform in Imperial Germany
James C. Albisetti explores the wide-ranging debate in Imperial Germany over the reform of secondary education to meet the new demands posed by unification, industrialization, and urbanization. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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 ideas - including the relationship between the individual and the mass, the tension between the ideals of equality and human excellence, and the role of the intellectual in the modern state - is the subject of insightful analysis, thus providing a rare investigation into Burckhardt's culture-critique of the nineteenth century. Other important aspects of Burckhardt's life that undoubtedly influenced both his hist...
From Gibbon to Auden
"This volume collects seventeen of G.W. Bowersock's essays, each illustrating how the classical past has captured the imagination of some of the greatest figures in modern historiography and literature. The essays here range across three centuries, the eighteenth to the twentieth, and are divided chronologically. The result is a rich survey of the early modern and modern uses of the classical past by one of its most important contemporary commentators."--Jacket.
1848
Es war nicht meine Absicht, die Geschichte der revolutionären Bewegungen zu schreiben, die in der ersten Hälfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts stattfanden und mit den Ausbrüchen des Jahres 1848 endeten, sondern ich wollte ihren Zusammenhang mit der umfassenderen allmählichen Umwälzung beleuchten, die das wesentlich agrarische Deutschland in ein wesentlich industrielles verwandelte, was zugleich eine Verwandlung der Weltanschauung bedeutet. Ich beschränkte mich dabei nicht nur, insofern ich die Geschichte der übrigen europäischen Staaten soviel wie möglich außer Betracht ließ, sondern auch dadurch, daß ich hauptsächlich die Menschen zu begreifen und darzustellen suchte, die diese U...
