Description |
xv, 261 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Series |
European perspectives
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-245) and index. |
Contents |
Making it strange : the prehistory of a literary device -- Myth : distance and deceit -- Representation : the word, the thing, the idea -- Ecce : on the scriptural roots of Christian devotional imagery -- Idols and likenesses : a passage in Origen and its vicissitudes -- Style : inclusion and exclusion -- Distance and perspective : two metaphors -- To kill a Chinese mandarin : the moral implications of distance -- Pope Wojtyla's slip. |
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. |
Subject |
Perspective (Philosophy)
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Culture -- Philosophy.
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Aesthetic distance.
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Added Author |
Ryle, Martin H.
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Soper, Kate.
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ISBN |
0231119607 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780231119603 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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