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Basel in the Age of Burckhardt
by Lionel Gossman
- HISTORY
- 2002
- PAPER
- 622 PAGES
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In this scholarly, engaging history Gossman looks at the 19th century independent city-republic of Basel through the lens of four of its key figures -- sociologist Johann Jacob Bachofen, historian Jacob Burckhard, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his colleague and neighbor, theologian Franz Overbeck.
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