Your Daily Penguin: Jacob Burckhardt!
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
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I kind of love that these Daily Penguins have become such a “ritual.” The Frieda footage, the “welcome,” and so on. It’s very comforting.
I completely agree, Lukas! When I open the CZcams app in the morning and there's no Daily Penguin it feels like such a jip! How the hell am I going to start my day without it?! 😂😂
I was assigned the work by Burckhardt in a graduate seminar called How to Live a Meaning Life which was a course on the intellectual history of modernity. The focus on Burckhardt's work was his concept of the exceptional all-sided man, and Burckhardt's view that Renaissance Italy birthed the individualism found in modernity. He argues that Renaissance Italy produced a self-conscious thirst for glory and the "modern sense of fame" .Burckhardt's critics either contend he failed to appreciate the development of individualism in antiquity and the Middle Ages, or that he jumped the gun and true individualism culminated with Enlightenment. That being said, Burckhardt's love of his subject is certainly infectious and makes for a enjoyable read.
I was just introducted to the great Burckhardt while reading 'Meaning in History' by Karl Lowith. It made me want to immediatelly drop Lowith and pick up Burckhardt, and I think I will do just that.
Just to save you eight minutes: There is no information about Burckhardt here at all.
Aww I needed to see that Frida baby today. And steve too haha
Steve, Frieda is winning me over to miniature Schnauzers.
The whole "XYZ Surname" trend extends to my little corner of academia as well: F. D. M. Haldane, P. A. M. Dirac, and so on. I've been told that if you happen to have a lot of names, include as many initials as possible, since it makes it more likely for people to recognize your work. I suppose I should be publishing under R. J. B. Davis!
Parade of initials drives you nuts? What about J. R. R. Tolkien, would John Tolkien be more palatable?
Any thoughts on his book on greek culture?
Frieda so pretty 💚
When is Arabian Nights coming?
Who's basel's most famous son?
Assuming Steve meant on global impact, it would have to be the great Leonhard Euler, arguably the greatest mathematician to ever live.
Could be Erasmus of Rotterdam, who spent many years of his life in Basel, or Friedrich Nietzsche, who taught for a decade in the Universaty of Basel (I'm including him in the same sentence with Erasmus just to annoy Steve).
Roger Federer. Harsh but True.