Bøger af Carlo Ginzburg

Om mølleren Menocchio (1532-1599), der kunne læse og skrive, og som kom i inkvisitionens søgelys og blev brændt som kætter. Forfatteren gennemgår sagen i en analyse af samfund, kristendom og bondesamfund

"I am a Jew who was born and who grew up in a Catholic country; I never had a religious education; my Jewish identity is in large measure the result of persecution." This brief autobiographical statement is a key to understanding Carlo Ginzburg's interest in the topic of his latest book: distance. In nine linked essays, he addresses the question: "What is the exact distance that permits us to see things as they are?" To understand our world, suggests Ginzburg, it is necessary to find a balance between being so close to the object that our vision is warped by familiarity or so far from it that the distance becomes distorting. Opening with a reflection on the sense of feeling astray, of familiarization and defamiliarization, the author goes on to consider the concepts of perspective, representation, imagery, and myth. Arising from the theme of proximity is the recurring issue of the opposition between Jews and Christians--a topic Ginzburg explores with an impressive array of examples, from Latin translations of Greek and Hebrew scriptures to Pope John Paul II's recent apology to the Jews for antisemitism. Moving with equal acuity from Aristotle to Marcus Aurelius to Montaigne to Voltaire, touching on philosophy, history, philology, and ethics, and including examples from present-day popular culture, the book offers a new perspective on the universally relevant theme of distance.

Weaving early accounts of witchcraft-trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography-into new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in Ecstasies compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across Europe and in England for thousands of years.

In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, dissects four moments of European intellectual history. This book relives the experience that participants in the Natalie Zemon Davis Lecture Series at the Budapest campus of Central European University had in 2019 listening to Ginzburg's eloquent and engaging discourses. For the purposes of this volume he has re-edited and completed the leporello of cases charged with the inherent ambiguity between secularism and religions.Secularism is often identified with rejection or at least distancing from the sacred. However, if one assumes that secularism also appropriates and reworks the sacred, its ambiguities come to the fore. The dilemma accompanies the reception of La Boétie's Servitude volontaire between 1574 and today. Before Walter Benjamin, the lesser-known 19th-century Léon de Laborde defended the profanity of reproducing the arts. The tension around the secular pervades the case of the College de Sociologie (Paris, 1937-1939), an attempt to analyze the ideological components of fascism. The fourth lecture approaches a much-discussed contemporary phenomenon - fake news - from a long-term perspective. To what extent are some disturbing features of the world we live in the result of a long, tortuous, unpredictable trajectory?

A collection of diverse yet interconnected essays from one of the world's most respected historians. Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of the discipline of microhistory ever since his earliest works were published to great acclaim in the 1970s. The Soul of Brutes brings together four of Ginzburg's recent scintillating essays and lectures that testify to the diversity of his thoughts on history and philosophy. "Civilization and Barbarism" resurrects a sixteenth-century debate between two thinkers in Spain about the humanness, or lack thereof, of Native Americans, and highlights the influence of classical thinkers, from Herodotus to Aristotle, and the iterations and interpretations through which their writings have traversed down to the Cinquecento. In "The Soul of Brutes" Ginzburg traces the genealogy of the debate on the rationality of animals and the limits of their imagination, from Plutarch and Aristotle to sixteenth-century thinkers like Pietro Pomponazzi and Girolamo Rorario. Following Montaigne, he provokes, are we to beasts as they seem to us? In "Calvino, Manzoni and the Grey Zone," Carlo Ginzburg pithily writes about the mental dialogue between Holocaust survivor Primo Levi and two Italians who profoundly influenced Levi's search for these "unexplored pockets of exception"--his contemporary Italo Calvino and the nineteenth-century novelist and philosopher Alessandro Manzoni. And finally, in "Schema and Bias", he probes whether the historian can clearly see into the past, peering through the layers of bias, which include their own prejudices, or if relativism is the only path. With several beautifully reproduced color illustrations, The Soul of Brutes will interest not only scholars of history, philosophy, and art, but also general intellectual readers.

Historian Carlo Ginzburg here draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the 16th and 17th centuries to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of the state's case in the late-20th century political show trial of Italian communists, Continua, Sofri, Bompressi and Piotresetafani.

Carlo Ginzburg's brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades of post-structuralism: What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? How do we grapple with the historical conventions that inform, in different ways, all written documents? In his answers, Ginzburg peels away layers of subsequent readings and interpretations that envelop every text to make a larger argument about history and fiction. Interwoven with compelling autobiographical references, Threads and Traces bears moving witness to Ginzburg's life as a European Jew, the abiding strength of his scholarship, and his deep engagement with the historian's craft.

Preface and third chapter translated from the Italian by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi.

A world-renowned historian presents a series of four brilliant forays into English literature, from Sir Thomas More to Robert Louis Stevenson.

Carlo Ginzburg builds up a portrait of Piero della Francesca's patrons and explains the contemporary intrigues resonant in his paintings. This edition includes additional material dealing with the work of Roberto Longhi, the dating of the Arezzo Cycle and the rediscovery of della Francesca.

Den italienske historiker Carlo Ginzburg hører til blandt vor tids mest originale tænkere. Han blev født i 1939, som søn af forfatteren Natalia Ginzburg og professor Leone Ginzburg. Han voksede op i Torino, Rom og London, og er uddannet på den prestigefyldte Scuola Normale Superiore i Pisa. Som 31-årig blev han udnævnt til professor i Bologna, og ti år efter Franklin D. Murphy-professor ved University of California i Los Angeles.Hans første bog, Osten og Ormene, om mølleren Menocchio, der i slutningen af 1500-tallet blev stedt for Inkvisitionen og som viste sig at have sin egen hjemmegroede kosmologi, gjorde ham kendt allerede i 1970´erne. Siden har han gjort sig bemærket med flere banebrydende studier af middelalderens heksekunst, en bog om maleren Piero della Francesca samt en lang række såkaldt mikrohistoriske essays om en bred vifte af kunsthistoriske, litterære og antropologiske emner.SPOR er en antologi af artikler, der sætter fokus på Ginzburgs opfattelse af historien som fænomen og som intellektuelt håndværk. I ti artikler fra de sidste tyve år demonstrerer han sin holdning til grundlæggende metodiske problemer i den historiske forståelse.Pressen skrev»Ginzburg er vel det nærmeste man kommer en verdensstjerne i historikerkredse.«- Ulrik Langen, Kristeligt Dagblad»Det er en kulturel undladelsessynd, der rettes op med denne udgave af hans mindre, teoretiske arbejder [...] Det nu muligt at få et bredt dækkende begreb om spændvidden i Ginzburgs faglige engagement.«- Charlotte Christensen, Information»Danske historikere kunne lære noget af Carlo Ginzburg, som kombinerer indsigter fra stort set alle kulturvidenskaber og får dem til at hænge meningsfyldt sammen[...]Tak for denne introduktion til et de seneste tiårs vigtigste historiske forfatterskaber, hvis perspektiver oprulles i Things fortræffelige indledning.«- Steffen Heiberg, Politiken»Der er meget at komme efter i den