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Ranke, Burckhardt und die "Orientalische Renaissance"
2021
The essay outlines Ranke's and Burckhardt's responses to the "Eastern Renaissance" triggered by Romanticism and late nineteenth-century culture. Main topics are the productive role of violence in history, the meaning of "sacrifice" and the danger of anonymity in metropolitan life. An important reference is found in a Quinet's book, which is used here as an undelying theme.
Ranke, Burckhardt e il "rinascimento orientale"
2020
Il saggio ricostruisce le reazioni di Ranke e di Burckhardt al "Rinascimento Orientale" del romanticismo e della cultura del tardo Ottocento. I temi trattati riguardano il tema della violenza nella storia, il significato del "sacrificio", il pericolo dell'anonimato e del quantitativo nella vita metropolitana. Un riferimento importante è svolto nel saggio da Quinet, cui si ricorre come a un "fil rouge". What stance on “Eastern Renaissance” did Ranke and Burckhardt take? This subject needed to make a survey of the German-Romantic idea of the East, focusing on Herder’s anthropology. Notoriously, Ranke and Burckhardt were very different historians, but they shared a negative opinion on “Eastern…