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Author : Carlo Ginzburg
Release : 1999
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 334/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis History, Rhetoric, and Proof by : Carlo Ginzburg
Download or read book History, Rhetoric, and Proof written by Carlo Ginzburg. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's leading historians delivers a pathbreaking analysis of truth and rhetoric in the writing of history.
Author : Carlo Ginzburg
Release : 1999
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Book Synopsis History, Rhetoric and Proof by : Carlo Ginzburg
Download or read book History, Rhetoric and Proof written by Carlo Ginzburg. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carlo Ginzburg
Release : 2002-08-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 710/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Judge and the Historian by : Carlo Ginzburg
Download or read book The Judge and the Historian written by Carlo Ginzburg. This book was released on 2002-08-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the 16th and 17th centuries to dissect the weaknesses of the state's case in the 20th-century show trial of Italian communists, Sofri, Bompressi and Pietrostefani.
Author : Sarah H. Beckjord
Release : 2016-11-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 998/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Territories of History by : Sarah H. Beckjord
Download or read book Territories of History written by Sarah H. Beckjord. This book was released on 2016-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah H. Beckjord’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Beckjord argues, the authors were not only informed by the spirit of inquiry present in the humanist tradition but also drew heavily from their encounters with New World peoples. More specifically, their attempts to distinguish superstition and magic from science and religion in the New World significantly influenced the aforementioned chroniclers, who increasingly directed their insights away from the description of native peoples and toward a reflection on the nature of truth, rhetoric, and fiction in writing history. Due to a convergence of often contradictory information from a variety of sources—eyewitness accounts, historiography, imaginative literature, as well as broader philosophical and theological influences—categorizing historical texts from this period poses no easy task, but Beckjord sifts through the information in an effective, logical manner. At the heart of Beckjord’s study, though, is a fundamental philosophical problem: the slippery nature of truth—especially when dictated by stories. Territories of History engages both a body of emerging scholarship on early modern epistemology and empiricism and recent developments in narrative theory to illuminate the importance of these colonial authors’ critical insights. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and poststructuralist approaches to the study of history, Beckjord uncovers an important legacy of the Hispanic intellectual tradition and updates the study of colonial historiography in view of recent discussions of narrative theory.
Author : Hans Vilhelm Hansen
Release : 2019
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 172/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Presumptions and Burdens of Proof by : Hans Vilhelm Hansen
Download or read book Presumptions and Burdens of Proof written by Hans Vilhelm Hansen. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proof In the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the modern academy. Two of the most central concepts of argumentation theory are presumptions and burdens of proof. Their functions have been explicitly recognized in legal theory since the middle ages, but their pervasive presence in all forms of argumentation and in inquiries beyond the law--including politics, science, religion, philosophy, and interpersonal communication--have been the object of study since the nineteenth century. However, the documents and essays central to any discussion of presumptions and burdens of proof as devices of argumentation are scattered across a variety of remote sources in rhetoric, law, and philosophy. Presumptions and Burdens of Proof: An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law brings together for the first time key texts relating to the history of the theory of presumptions along with contemporary studies that identify and give insight into the issues facing students and scholars today. The collection's first half contains historical sources and begins with excerpts from Aristotle's Topics and goes on to include the locus classicus chapter from Bishop Whately's crucial Elements of Rhetoric as well as later reactions to Whately's views. The second half of the collection contains contemporary essays by contributors from the fields of law, philosophy, rhetoric, and argumentation and communication theory. These essays explore contemporary understandings of presumptions and burdens of proof and their role in numerous contexts today. This anthology is the definitive resource on the subject of these crucial rhetorical modes and will be a vital resource to all scholars of communication and rhetoric, as well as legal scholars and practicing jurists.
