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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Gardners Books
Publication date
June 25, 2002
Pages
276
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781859846377
ISBN-10
1859846378
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$33.35
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The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths | Ilya Kabakov | The Condition of Postmodernity | Art in Theory 1900-2000 | The Field of Cultural Production | Threads and Traces | The Sight of Death | Michael Snow | The Anti-Aesthetic
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Ginzburg's new book is a thought-provoking study of the various meanings of distance. Opening with a defamiliarization, which traces the roots of the idea in classical and enlightenment culture, he moves on to explorations of the concepts of perspective, representation, imagery and myth.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: "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 Ginzberg's interest in the topic of his latest book: distance. In nine linked essays, he addresses the question "what id 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 Ginzberg explores with an array of examples, from Latin translations to Greek and Hebrew scriptures to Pope John Paul II's recent apology to the Jews for anti-Semitism. Moving with equal acuity from Aristotle to Voltaire, touching on philosophy, history, philology and ethics, and including examples from present-day popular culture, Wooden Eyes offers a new perspective on the universally relevant theme of distance.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Gardners Books (June 25, 2002)
9781859846377 | details & prices | 276 pages | List price $33.35
About: Ginzburg's new book is a thought-provoking study of the various meanings of distance.
About: Ginzburg's new book is a thought-provoking study of the various meanings of distance.
from Columbia Univ Pr (July 1, 2001)
9780231119603 | details & prices | 261 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $49.99
Paperback
from Gardners Books (March 1, 2005)
9781844675210 | details & prices | 272 pages | List price $24.05
About: This is an illuminating and thought provoking study of the various meanings of distance.
About: This is an illuminating and thought provoking study of the various meanings of distance.
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