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KORTE INHOUD

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 truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? How do we grapple with the historical conventions that inform, in different ways, all written documents? In his answers, Ginzburg peels away layers of s...
2012 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2012 Uitgever: University Of California Press 336 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0520259610 ISBN-13: 9780520259614