An edition of Occhiacci di legno (1998)

Wooden eyes

nine reflections on distance

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Wooden eyes
Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg
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An edition of Occhiacci di legno (1998)

Wooden eyes

nine reflections on distance

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""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.

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Columbia University Press
Language
English
Pages
261

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Subjects

Perspective (Philosophy), Culture, Philosophy, Aesthetic distance, Aesthetics, Distances, Waarneming, Perspectief, Culturele verschillen, Vervreemding, Afstand

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Wooden Eyes: Nine Reflections on Distance
March 2005, Verso
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Wooden Eyes: Nine Reflections on Distance
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Wooden eyes: nine reflections on distance
2001, Columbia University Press
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Wooden Eyes
August 15, 2001, Columbia University Press
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Holzaugen. Über Nähe und Distanz.
March 1, 1999, Wagenbach
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Occhiacci di legno: nove riflessioni sulla distanza
1998, Feltrinelli
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Occhiacci di legno: nove riflessioni sulla distanza
1998, Feltrinelli
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Table of 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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-245) and index

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New York
Series
European perspectives

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Library of Congress
BD348 .G5613 2001, BD348.G5613 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 261 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
261

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OL17019594M
ISBN 10
0231119607
LCCN
2001017407
OCLC/WorldCat
46314482
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1941353
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1120682

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"I. In 1992, the Russian critic Viktor Shklovsky, in a letter to Roman Jakobson, exclaimed cheerfully: "We know how life is made, and how Don Quixote and the car are made too.""

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