General Information

Uniform Title

Occhiacci di legno.

Author/Creator

Ginzburg, Carlo.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.

Physical Description

xv, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series

European perspectives.

Contributors

Contributor

Ryle, Martin H.

Soper, Kate.

Contents/Summary

Summary

""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?""--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Subject

Perspective (Philosophy)

Culture > Philosophy.

Aesthetic distance.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Martin Ryle and Kate Soper.

Series

European perspectives

Content

1. Making it Strange: The Prehistory of a Literary Device -- 2. Myth: Distance and Deceit -- 3. Representation: The World, the Idea, the Thing -- 4. Ecce: On the Scriptural Roots of Christian Devotional Imagery -- 5. Idols and Likenesses: A Passage in Origen and Its Vicissitudes -- 6. Style: Inclusion and Exclusion -- 7. Distance and Perspective: Two Metaphors -- 8. To Kill a Chinese Mandarin: The Moral Implications of Distance -- 9. Pope Wojtyla's Slip.

ISBN

0231119607

9780231119603

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	195 GIN		Reference	-

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