Category Archives: Carlo Ginzburg

Books received – Chestov, Nietzsche, Ginzburg, Rose, Spotts, Bataille

Posted on May 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Some recently bought books – Léon Chestov’s L’idée de bien chez Tolstoï et Nietzsche (Bataille was one of the translators); the two most recent volumes of the Stanford Nietzsche translations; Carlo Ginzburg’s The Judge and the Historian; Gillian Rose, Judaism … Continue reading →

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Books received – Ginzburg, Filoni, Simpson, Mehlman, Lévi-Strauss, Dumézil 

Posted on May 10, 2023 by stuartelden

Mainly bought second-hand, but also Tim Simpson, Betting on Macau, sent by University of Minnesota Press. Dumézil’s Archaic Roman Religion was hard to find in its original two-volume form, with case – before I had a mismatched set of one … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg, The Soul of Brutes – Seagull, November 2022

Posted on April 14, 2023 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg, The Soul of Brutes – Seagull, November 2022 A collection of diverse yet interconnected essays from one of the world’s most respected historians. Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of the discipline of microhistory ever since his … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg, in discussion with Raphaëlle Burns, Emmanuelle Saada, and Pierre Force, online April 3, 2023 (12-1pm New York; 6-7pm Paris)

Posted on March 28, 2023 by stuartelden

MONDAY, APRIL 3, 12:00-1:00 PM (New York) / 18:00-19:00 (Paris) Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal  Carlo Ginzburg, in discussion with Raphaëlle Burns, Emmanuelle Saada, and Pierre Force On zoom RSVP HERE Machiavelli’s repeated use of the adverb nondimanco (“nevertheless”) indicated he thought that there was an … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg: ‘In history as in cinema, every close-up implies an off-screen scene’

Posted on January 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg: ‘In history as in cinema, every close-up implies an off-screen scene’ – Verso blog translated by David Fernbach from a text in Le Monde des Livres

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My favourite academic books of 2022

Posted on December 30, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated them. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Ginzburg, Kelly, Camelli, Massey, Trubetzkoy, Foucault, Derrida, Brighenti & Kärrholm

Posted on June 27, 2022 by stuartelden

Older books by Ginzburg and Trubetzkoy, the new lecture courses from Foucault and Derrida, Mark Kelly, Normal Now: Individualism as Conformity (which I endorsed), Michele Camelli, Canguilhem philosophe, Doreen Massey, Selected Political Writings (sent by Lawrence & Wishart), and Territories, … Continue reading →

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Philology and Microhistory: A Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg by Islam Dayeh (open access)

Posted on June 9, 2022 by stuartelden

Philology and Microhistory: A Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg by Islam Dayeh  In this Philological Conversation, Carlo Ginzburg reflects on the place of philology in his work and explores the connections between philology, microhistory, and casuistry. We talk about the people who … Continue reading →

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Books received – Ginzburg, Mauss, Eliade, Goldstein, Brennan

Posted on April 6, 2022 by stuartelden

A couple by Carlo Ginzburg, including his new Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal, the Hau books edition of Marcel Mauss, The Gift, translated by Jane Guyer with additional material, an older book by Mircea Eliade, Jan Goldstein’s Foucault and the Writing of … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg, Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal – Verso, January 2022

Posted on April 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg, Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal – Verso, January 2022 Through his repeated use of the adverb nondimanco (“nevertheless”), Machiavelli indicated that there is an exception to every rule. This may seem merely to confirm the traditional image of Machiavelli as a cynical, … Continue reading →

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