The State as a Work of Art (Penguin Great Ideas) by Jacob Burckhardt (PDF)

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Pioneering art historian Jacob Burckhardt saw the Italian Renaissance as no less than the beginning of the modern world. In this hugely influential work he argues that the Renaissance’s creativity, competitiveness, dynasties, great city-states and even its vicious rulers sowed the seeds of a new era.GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

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⭐This is an excerpt from Burkhardt’s The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy.Could practically be renamed “The State as a Work of Murder” for the level of violence it contains, which Burkhardt writes about quite exactingly and almost glowingly. In a seemingly disapproving and fascinated way. To be appalled by the savagery, but still write the sordid, sad, violent, triumphant, history of the renaissance era papacy, lovingly and admiringly, with force, clarity and wit (though a very low key and dark wit). The state was a work of art – and like the other objects we are used to considering as art, it’s a product of vision and will.Well worth reading if you are not interested (or not sure that you’d be interested) in reading the entire work from which it is drawn.

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