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Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method - Couverture souple

Ginzburg, Carlo

 
9781421409900: Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1421409909 ISBN 13 : 9781421409900
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

Synopsis

More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Italian painting, Freud's wolf-man, and other topics. In the influential centerpiece of the volume Carlo Ginzburg places historical knowledge in a long tradition of cognitive practices and shows how a research strategy based on reading clues and traces embedded in the historical record reveals otherwise hidden information. Acknowledging his debt to art history, psychoanalysis, comparative religion, and anthropology, Ginzburg challenges us to retrieve cultural and social dimensions beyond disciplinary boundaries.

In his new preface, Ginzburg reflects on how easily we miss the context in which we read, write, and live. Only hindsight allows some understanding. He examines his own path in research during the 1970s and its relationship to the times, especially the political scenes of Italy and Germany. Was he influenced by the environment, he asks himself, and if so, how? Ginzburg uses his own experience to examine the elusive and constantly evolving nature of history and historical research.

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À propos de l'auteur

Carlo Ginzburg has taught at the University of Bologna, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. The recipent of the 2010 International Balzan Prize, he is author of The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1421409909
ISBN 13 
9781421409900
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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