Letters of Jacob Burckhardt

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This volume collects the letters written between 1838 and 1897 by Jacob Burckhardt, one of the greatest historians of art and culture of his time. The correspondence provides additional and personal observations that complement his formal body of work on antiquity, the Renaissance, and modern Europe, and reveal his thoughts on the consequences he believed and feared awaited a Europe that had given itself almost wholly to a rationalistic and materialistic understanding of history and destiny. c. Book News Inc.