Wooden eyes
Subtitle: nine reflections on distance
By: Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Martin Ryle and Kate Soper
Contributors: Ryle, Martin H; Soper, Kate
Series: European perspectives
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Perspective (Philosophy); Culture -- Philosophy; Aesthetic distance
Work titles: Occhiacci di legno.
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 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?""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-245) and index
Table of contents: title: Making it strange : the prehistory of a literary  device; title: Myth : distance and deceit; title: Representation : the word, the thing, the idea; title: Ecce : on the scriptural roots of Christian devotional imagery; title: Idols and likenesses : a passage in Origen and its vicissitudes; title: Style : inclusion and exclusion; title: Distance and perspective : two metaphors; title: To kill a Chinese mandarin : the moral implications of distance; title: Pope Wojtyla's slip