Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy A Classic Study of Renaissance Italy and European Culture
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:SMK Books
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
03.04.2018
Verlag
SMK BooksSeitenzahl
334
Maße (L/B/H)
23,5/15,7/2,4 cm
Gewicht
694 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-5154-2860-2
Jacob Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is one of the foundational works on Renaissance culture, politics, individuality, art, religion, and social life. Rather than treating the Renaissance only as a sequence of artists, rulers, wars, and dates, Burckhardt presents it as a transformation in consciousness: the rise of the individual, the deliberate shaping of the state, the revival of antiquity, the changing place of religion, and the development of new forms of social and cultural self-awareness. The book's famous sections on "The State as a Work of Art," "The Development of the Individual," "The Revival of Antiquity," and "The Discovery of the World and of Man" helped define the modern idea of the Italian Renaissance. Burckhardt's interpretation has been revised, challenged, and complicated by later scholarship, but its influence remains enormous. His portrait of Renaissance Italy as a world of political calculation, artistic brilliance, intellectual energy, moral danger, and cultivated personality remains one of the classic achievements of nineteenth-century historical writing. This SMK edition presents a landmark work of Renaissance history and cultural criticism for readers interested in Italian history, European civilization, art history, humanism, political culture, historical interpretation, and the intellectual origins of the modern West. Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy remains essential not because every judgment is final, but because Burckhardt gave the Renaissance a powerful historical shape that scholars and general readers have been arguing with ever since.
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