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Article: Based in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2003
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Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas. By LIONEL GOSSMAN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000. xiv+608 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-30498-1 (hbk).
Lionel Gossman is known for several important studies in French and German historiography and cultural history. It is no surprise to learn from the preface to his latest book that it arose from a Princeton seminar conducted jointly with Carl Schorske, whose Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture (New York: Knopf, 1980) disclosed so many new pathways in Austrian studies. While Schorske's book was a collection of substantial essays, some published previously, Gossman has ...