This section contains 4,892 words (approx. 17 pages at 300 words per page) |
![]() |
SOURCE: "Burckhardt: Historical Realism as Satire," in Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973, pp. 230-64.
Below, White analyzes Burckhardt's work within the framework of a structuralist theory of historiography. He emphasizes the influence of Arthur Schopenhauer on Burckhardt's thought.
The German philosopher and historian of ideas Karl Lowith argued that it was only with Burckhardt that the "idea of history" was finally liberated from myth, and
![Manuscript page of Die Griechen und ihr Mythus.](https://d22o6al7s0pvzr.cloudfront.net/images/bookrags/litcrit/nclc_0001_0049_0_img0009.jpg)
This section contains 4,892 words (approx. 17 pages at 300 words per page) |
![]() |