Wooden eyes : nine reflections on distance
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Wooden eyes : nine reflections on distance
（European perspectives）
Columbia University Press, c2001
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内容説明
"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 Christians-a 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.
目次
1. Making it Strange: The Prehistory of a Literary Device 2. Myth: Distance and Deceit 3. Representation: The Word, the Idea, the Thing 4. Ecce: On the Scriptural Roots of Christian Devotional Imagery 5. Idols and Likenesses: A Passage in Origen and Its Vicissitudes 6. Style: Inclusion and Exclusion 7. Distance and Perspective: Two Metaphors 8. To Kill a Chinese Mandarin: The Moral Implications of Distance 9. Pope Wojtyla's Slip
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