Under the Sign of an Evil Power: Jacob Burckhardt and Alfredo Bosi

Robert Patrick Newcomb

doi:10.21471/jls.v7i0.279

Under the Sign of an Evil Power: Jacob Burckhardt and Alfredo Bosi

Robert Patrick Newcomb University of California, Davis

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21471/jls.v7i0.279

Keywords: Brazil, good, evil

Abstract

I will organize my present analysis around Jacob Burckhardt’s formulation and Alfedo Bosi’s reception of the idea that “power is in itself evil” (die Macht an sich böse ist), which Burckhardt repeated as a kind of mantra throughout his historiographical reflections.

Published

2009-12-11

Issue

Vol 7 (2009): ellipsis

Section

Articles

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