Author: Carlo Ginzburg File Type: pdf Carlo Ginzburgs 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 subsequent readings and interpretations that envelop every text to make a larger argument about history and fiction. Interwoven with compelling autobiographical references, Threads and Traces bears moving witness to Ginzburgs life as a European Jew, the abiding strength of his scholarship, and his deep engagement with the historians craft.ReviewGinzburgs range is remarkable . . . rich in references to and insights about diverse historical perspectives.--Publishers WeeklyA collection of essays by the profoundly original, intellectually wide-ranging, Italian-Jewish historian Carlo Ginzburg . . . an illuminating collection of chapters, deftly translated from the original Italian by Anne C. and John Tedeschi.--ForwardFrom the Inside FlapCarlo Ginzburg weaves a spell-binding web of learning and surprises as he explores the question of truth in history and fiction and his own multiple engagement with the past. Whether dealing with Montaignes cannibals, Italian shamans, or anti-Semitic forgeries, Threads and Traces is a powerful and moving statement of the stakes in historical knowledge from one of our greatest historians. --Natalie Zemon Davis, author of Trickster Travels A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between WorldsPrevious Praise for Carlo GinzburgGinzburg is a historian with an insatiable curiosity, who pursues even the faintest of clues with all the zest of a born detective until every fragment of evidence can be fitted into place. --J.H. Elliott, New York Review of BooksCarlo Ginzburg has many claims to be considered the outstanding European historian of the generation which came of age in the late Sixties. Certainly few have equalled him in originality, variety and audacity. --Perry Anderson, London Review of BooksGinzburgs scholarship is dazzling and profound. --Publishers Weekly

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer File Type: pdf This volume of new translations unites three shorter works by Arthur Schopenhauer that expand on themes from his book The World as Will and Representation. In On the Fourfold Root he takes the principle of sufficient reason, which states that nothing is without a reason why it is, and shows how it covers different forms of explanation or ground that previous philosophers have tended to confuse. Schopenhauer regarded this study, which he first wrote as his doctoral dissertation, as an essential preliminary to The World as Will. On Will in Nature examines contemporary scientific findings in search of corroboration of his thesis that processes in nature are all a species of striving towards ends and On Vision and Colours defends an anti-Newtonian account of colour perception influenced by Goethes famous colour theory. This is the first English edition to provide extensive editorial notes on the different published versions of these works. **Review ...its a pleasure to welcome the latest volume from the Cambridge University Press uniform series of the philosophers works, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings, published just last month. The enthusiast will be very glad to see that, along with a new translation of Schopenhauers dissertation, there are also new translations of On Vision and Colors and On Will in Nature, the first influenced by the young Schopenhauers friendship with the older Goethe and the second a treatise about the ways in which Schopenhauers metaphysical will operates through the physical world. These essays have been among the hardest to get a hold of, and now that we have these new translations (by David E. Cartwright, Edward E. Erdmann, and Christopher Janaway), we can look forward to meeting Schopenhauers expectations of us through the rest of the winter... --George Hunk, Superfluities Redux This new translation of three of Schopenhauers essays is of a very high quality and is testament to the customary rigor of the Cambridge Translations, Undoubtedly, this new edition will become in time the standard work of reference for English-speaking scholars worldwide. Dennis Vanden Auweele, Leuven, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger vol. 66 (2013), no. 2 Book Description On the Fourfold Root, newly translated here in a readable and scholarly edition, is an essential preliminary to Schopenhauers great book The World as Will and Representation. In the companion works Schopenhauer defends his idea that all nature is an expression of will and attacks Newtons account of colour perception.

Author: Philip F. Esler File Type: pdf Early Christian World presents an exhaustive, erudite and lavishly illustrated treatment of how the small movement which formed around Jesus in Galilee became the pre-eminent religion of the ancient world. The work begins by firmly situating early Christianity within its Mediterranean social, political and religious contexts, before charting the history of the first Christian centuries. The creation and perpetuation of Christian communities through various means, including mission and monasticism, is explored, as is the everyday experience of early Christians, through discussion of gender and sexuality, religious practice, communication and social structures. The intellectual (particularly theological) and artistic heritage of the period is fully considered, and a vivid picture painted of the internal and external challenges faced by early Christianity. The book concludes with profiles of the most notable figures of the age. Comprehensive and accessible, Early Christian World provides up-to-date coverage of the most important topics in the study of early Christianity, together with an invaluable collection of visual material. It will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying this period

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