Wooden Eyes: Nine Reflections on Distance (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism)
「距離」を手がかりに、神話、イメージ、表象、宗教史、観察の方法を横断する九つのエッセイ集。近すぎれば歪み、遠すぎれば見えないという視点から、認識と解釈の条件を問い直す。
作品情報
距離は抽象ではなく、世界を見直すための方法になる。
カルロ・ギンズブルグは、神話や図像、宗教的イメージ、歴史的観察をめぐる思考を、距離という概念を軸に組み立てる。対象との距離が、理解を妨げる壁にも、理解を深める方法にもなりうることを示すエッセイ集。
レビュー要約
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エッセイの射程の広さと、異化された距離を思考の道具に変える視点が評価されている。歴史や図像をめぐる議論を、認識論的な問いへ自然につなげる点が強みと見なされる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Columbia Univ Pr
- 発売日
- 2001-07-01
- ページ数
- 261ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 16.51 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780231119603
- ISBN-10
- 0231119607
- 価格
- 5326 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/History/Americas/United States
"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 Christiansa 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.
Carlo Ginzburg teaches at UCLA, where he is the Franklin D. Murphy Chair of Italian Renaissance Studies. His other books in English include The Cheese and the Worms , No Island Is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches'Sabbath and The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.