146 Pages
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Central European University Press
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.... Read more
Foreword, Chapter 1. Hobbes's Invisible Target: On the Reception of La Boétie's, Chapter 2. Texts, Images, Reproductions: On the shoulders of Walter Benjamin, Chapter 3. Sacred Sociology: A Few Reflections on the College de Sociologie, Chapter 4. Fake News?, Notes
Biography
Carlo Ginzburg
