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Jacob Burckhardt
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Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (; Swiss Standard German: [ˈbʊrkhart]; 25 May 1818 – 8 August 1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields. His best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history. Sigfried Giedion described Burckhardt's achievement in the following terms: "The great discoverer of the age of the Renaissance, he first showed how a period should be treated in its entirety, with regard not only for its painting, sculpture and architecture, but for the social institutions of its daily life as well."
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They will perhaps think this "culture" to be merely a kind of knowledge about culture, and a false and superficial knowledge at that. False and superficial, because the Germans endured the contradiction between life and knowledge, and did not see what was characteristic in the culture of really educated peoples, that it can only rise and bloom from life. But by the Germans it is worn like a paper flower, or spread…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thoughts Out of Season, Part II
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For the reason, however, that their criticism was not accompanied with a knowledge of the nature of such a standard based on philosophical principles, a lack of definition and continuity was inseparable from this standard; and they at one time attempted too much and again at another too little. Despite, therefore, of the fact that it may be reckoned to their credit that they have once more drawn attention to and…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
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For Winckelmann should be regarded as one of the men who have succeeded in furnishing the mind with a new organ and new methods of study in the field of art. On the theory, however, and the scientific knowledge of art his view has had less influence.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay
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Philosophers who discussed Jacob Burckhardt
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Ernest Renan
- Titus Burckhardt
- Renaissance
- Karl Löwith
- Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Related ideas
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Historiography
- Industrial Revolution
- Modernity
- The Birth of Tragedy
- Architecture
- Renaissance
- Protestantism
- University of Tübingen
- Sculpture
- Positivism
- Social alienation
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Italian Renaissance
- Cultural history
- Disenchantment
- Basel
- Reformed Christianity
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Part of Humanism.