Reflections on History

Name: Reflections on History
Author: Jacob Burckhardt

by Jacob Burckhardt

Philosophical essays on the nature and meaning of historical study

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Jacob Burckhardt

Burckhardt transformed the study of the Renaissance with a book that invented the concept of the Renaissance as a cultural period. His pessimistic philosophy of history and skepticism toward progress was prophetic of 20th-century disaster.

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