Threads and traces : true, false, fictive / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi.
"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 t...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Description and Citation; 2. The Conversion of the Jews of Minorca (a.d. 417-418); 3. Montaigne, Cannibals, and Grottoes; 4. Proofs and Possibilities: Postscript to Natalie Zemon Davis, Th e Return of Martin Guerre; 5. Paris, 1647: A Dialogue on Fiction and History; 6. The Europeans Discover (or Rediscover) the Shamans; 7. Tolerance and Commerce: Auerbach Reads Voltaire; 8. Anacharsis Interrogates the Natives: A New Reading of an Old Best Seller; 9. Following the Tracks of Israël Bertuccio.
- 10. The Bitter Truth: Stendhal's Challenge to Historians11. Representing the Enemy: On the French Prehistory of the Protocols; 12. Just One Witness: The Extermination of the Jews and the Principle of Reality; 13. Details, Early Plans, Microanalysis: Thoughts on a Book by Siegfried Kracauer; 14. Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It; 15. Witches and Shamans; Notes; Index.