Informationen zum Autor

Lionel Gossman is a professor emeritus of Romance Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.

Autorentext

Lionel Gossman is a professor emeritus of Romance Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
This work tells the story of 19th century Basel, this seemingly anachronistic hybrid of commercialism and classical republicanism, and of four thinkers who retreated there: Jacob Burckhardt, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Franz Overbeck and Nietzsche. It gives an analytical biography of these figures.