In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, dissects four moments of European intellectual history.
To what extent are some disturbing features of the world we live in the result of a long, tortuous, unpredictable trajectory?.
The fourth lecture approaches a much-discussed contemporary phenomenon - fake news - from a long-term perspective.
The tension around the secular pervades the case of the Coll?ge de Sociologie (Paris, 1937-1939), an attempt to analyze the ideological components of fascism.
Before Walter Benjamin, the lesser-known 19th-century Léon de Laborde defended the profanity of reproducing the arts.
The dilemma accompanies the reception of La Boétie\'s Servitude volontaire between 1574 and today.
However, if one assumes that Secularism also appropriates and reworks the sacred, its Ambiguities come to the fore.
Secularism is often identified with rejection or at least distancing from the sacred.
For the purposes of this volume he has re-edited and completed the leporello of cases charged with the inherent ambiguity between Secularism and religions.
This book relives the experience that participants in the Natalie Zemon Davis Lecture Series at the Budapest campus of Central European University had in 2019 listening to Ginzburg\'s eloquent and engaging discourses.
In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, dissects four moments of European intellectual history
