Apharides. Burckhardt and Nietzsche’s problematisation of scientific methodologies in the Geisteswissenschaften

Palumbo, Neriojamil (2025) Apharides. Burckhardt and Nietzsche’s problematisation of scientific methodologies in the Geisteswissenschaften. Doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia.

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Abstract

The dissertation undertakes the analysis and exposition of Jacob Burckhardt and Friedrich Nietzsche’s respective critiques of scientific methods in the study of the humanities. The work contributes to a renewed analysis of the relationship between the two authors – one that deflects the conventional focus from biographical details to the similarities and differences emerging from their works. The four parts comprising the thesis address the problem of science and scientific methods from two different perspectives. The first two reconstruct Burckhardt and Nietzsche’s progressive estrangement from academia through an analysis of their respective relationships with their scholarly mentors, on the one hand, and of the works in which their growing discomfort towards the academic canon emerges more clearly on the other. The last two parts of the dissertation shift the focus onto the alternative approaches that both authors elaborated in reaction and response to the rigidity of their professional constraints. While Burckhardt decided to forsake the production of academic monographs and to devote himself to the teaching desk, Nietzsche chose more radical a path – one that led him to resign from his appointment at the University of Basel, and to seek a radically different means of expression in the artistic form of the aphorism.

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Depositing User:	Chris White
Date Deposited:	03 Dec 2025 12:21
Last Modified:	03 Dec 2025 12:21
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/101222
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