{"product_id":"secularism-and-its-ambiguities-four-case-studies-paperback","title":"Secularism and Its Ambiguities: Four Case Studies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarlo Ginzburg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecularism is often identified with rejection or at least distancing from the sacred. However, if one assumes that secularism also appropriates and reworks the sacred, its ambiguities come to the fore. The dilemma accompanies the reception of La Bo騁ie's \u003cem\u003eServitude volontaire \u003c\/em\u003ebetween 1574 and today. Before Walter Benjamin, the lesser-known 19th-century L駮n de Laborde defended the profanity of reproducing the arts. The tension around the secular pervades the case of the \u003cem\u003eCollege de Sociologie\u003c\/em\u003e (Paris, 1937-1939), an attempt to analyze the ideological components of fascism. The fourth lecture approaches a much-discussed contemporary phenomenon - fake news - from a long-term perspective. To what extent are some disturbing features of the world we live in the result of a long, tortuous, unpredictable trajectory?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGarlo Ginzburg is the professor emeritus in History of European Cultures in Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. He has also taught at the UCLA as the Franklin D. Murphy professor of Italian Renaissance Studies. His research interests include Italian renaissance and early modern European history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 146\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 7.8 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 25, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777238040864,"sku":"9789633866412","price":24.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/274919aac0f91081ff3a3b1c5620970b.webp?v=1780495380","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/secularism-and-its-ambiguities-four-case-studies-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}