Carlo Ginzburg

Biographic Data

ID84607
NAMECarlo Ginzburg
GIVEN NAMESCarlo
FAMILY NAMEGinzburg
SIGNATUREGINZBURG C
AFFILIATIONSScuola Normale Superiore
ORCID0000-0002-4118-6599
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS91
TOTAL CITATIONS481
AUTHOR COUNT91
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX10

  • The Night Battles

    Carlo GinzburgBOOKThe Night Battles2026

  • The Name and the Game: Unequal Exchange and the Historiographic Marketplace

    Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo PoniCHAPTERWorlds of Work: Peasants and…2025

  • Airs de famille et arbres généalogiques. Deux métaphores cognitives

    Carlo GinzburgARTICLERevue française de psychanalyse2025References: 7

  • Gaza et le lien de la honte

    Carlo Ginzburg, Martin RueffARTICLEEsprit2025

    Protestant contre le boycott des universités israéliennes, mais contestant que les critiques de la politique israéliennes soient antisémites, l’historien italien et juif souligne que dans un rapport à un pays, la honte peut être un lien plus fort que l’amour

  • The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror

    Jacob Rogozinski, Carlo Ginzburg et al.BOOKLogic of Hatred2024

    This book seeks to uncover the logic of hatred, to understand how this affect manifests itself historically in persecution and terror apparatuses. This historical genealogy of persecution is based on a phenomenological approach. Focusing on the witch hunt that was waged in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, the first part of the book analyzes the techniques used to designate and annihilate its targets: the search for the “diabolical sti…

  • Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror

    Carlo Ginzburg, Jacob Rogozinski et al.BOOKLogic of Hatred2024

  • Nota bene: À propos de La lettre tue

    Carlo Ginzburg, Jonathan Chalier et al.ARTICLEEsprit2024

    À l’occasion de la publication de La lettre tue (Verdier, 2024), l’historien Carlo Ginzburg aborde l’ambivalence du christianisme à l’égard du judaïsme, l’ambiguïté de sécularisation et les figures contemporaines de l’apocalypse à travers des cas particuliers et néanmoins exemplaires

  • Correspondence on Freud (1971–1995)

    Open AccessCarlo Ginzburg, Sebastiano TimpanaroARTICLEPsychoanalysis and History2023

    In this correspondence, philologist Sebastiano Timpanaro and historian Carlo Ginzburg discuss the role of Freud’s work. The letters provide an important source for the Italian reception of psychoanalysis in its relation to the emergence of microhistory, by opening a window on to the political-intellectual microcosm of the 1970s and on an epistemological debate crucial to the understanding of psychoanalysis and the human sciences at large

  • Textual Criticism, Psychoanalysis and the Historical Method. A Conversation

    Open AccessCarlo Ginzburg, Andreas MayerARTICLEPsychoanalysis and History2023

    In this conversation, Carlo Ginzburg and Andreas Mayer address a number of epistemological issues central to the articulation of historiography and psychoanalysis: the notion of unintentional revelations (or involuntary testimonies), the relation between the specificity of cases and the generalizations implied by them, the problem of reopening old cases and of their proper contextualization, and the question to what extent translation can serve a…

  • Between Memory and History

    Carlo GinzburgARTICLEThe Journal of Holocaust Research2023

    A relationship between Saul Friedländer's autobiographical text When Memory Comes and his historical magnus opus Nazi Germany and the Jews has been suggested by Stéphane Bou. This article develops this suggestion, focusing on the narrative choices Friedländer made in his major historical work. An analysis of the use of estrangement and fragmentary evidence unveils their cognitive implications

  • Introduction (with Yehuda Bauer)

    Dina Porat, Carlo Ginzburg et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Holocaust Research2023

  • Secularism and Its Ambiguities: Four Case Studies

    Carlo GinzburgBOOKSecularism and Its Ambiguities2023

  • Le lien de la honte

    Carlo GinzburgARTICLEASDIWAL Revue genevoise d…2022

    Ginzburg Carlo. Le lien de la honte. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°17, 2022. pp. 85-92

  • Les batailles nocturnes en français, 40 ans après

    Giordana Charuty, Carlo Ginzburg et al.ARTICLECahiers philosophiques2022

    International audience

  • Dialogue avec Carlo Ginzburg

    Maririta Guerbo, Frédéric Fruteau De Laclos et al.ARTICLECahiers philosophiques2022References: 7

    International audience

  • Nossas palavras e as deles: O ofício do historiador na atualidade

    Open AccessCarlo GinzburgARTICLEArtCultura2021

    changer de vocabulaire". Bloch, "Apologie pour l'histoire", 872. Esta passagem foi trazida novamente minha ateno por Ciafaloni, "Le domande di

  • Machiavelli, Galileo and The Censors

    Carlo GinzburgARTICLENew left review2020

    Under the Inquisition, twin defences against the challenge of natural and political science, hinging on the distinction of reasoning simpliciter and sub conditione. A striking commonality in the cases of Machiavelli and Galileo, targets of the censors and progenitors of upheaval in Renaissance thought

  • On Detail

    Carlo GinzburgCHAPTERField Notes on the Visual Arts2019

  • Une Machine à Penser

    Carlo Ginzburg, Jeffrey M PerlARTICLECommon Knowledge2019

    The author describes his research experience in the 1960s as an apprentice historian in the Warburg Library. His work on witchcraft trials in early modern Italy, he argues, was deeply affected by the library’s unique character. Aby Warburg’s law of the “good neighbor” (the book we need is placed next to the one we are looking for) is illustrated through a specific example: the encounter with a forgotten tract dealing with some anomalous Bavarian …

  • Disciplines, Serendipity, Case Studies

    Open AccessCarlo GinzburgARTICLEEuropean Review2019Cited by: 1References: 4

    In this article I will share some reflections on my own experience as a historian. However, I will refrain from proposing my own case as a model. I dislike preaching; moreover, I regard ego-centred preaching as a ridiculous posture. So please: note what I will say, and then follow a completely different path

  • The Bond of Shame

    Carlo GinzburgARTICLENew left review2019

    Is shame for one’s country, not love of it, the truer mark of belonging? Lineaments of a political emotion, at the intersection of biology and history, from Nestor’s invocation on the battlefield of Troy to Primo Levi’s remembrance of the Red Army. How might we imagine the boundaries of a shame-based community

  • L'héritage ambivalent de Mircea Eliade

    Carlo GinzburgARTICLEGradhiva2019

    Nous connaissons mieux, désormais, la diversité des traitements de l’événement, des représentations de l’histoire et des techniques d’oubli mises en œuvre par des sociétés longtemps créditées de conceptions de la temporalité qui feraient obstacle à toute forme de conscience historique. Les raisons scientifiques et idéologiques qui ont donné naissance à ce lieu commun, pour qualifier le temps des autres, en ethnologie comme en histoire des religio…

  • Medals and Shells: On Morphology and History, Once Again

    Carlo GinzburgARTICLECritical Inquiry2019Cited by: 3References: 2

  • Medals and Shells: On Morphology and History, Once Again

    Scuola Normale Superiore Di Pisa, Carlo GinzburgARTICLEAntropologicheskij forum2018

    sns.it : 3 2018

  • Ethnophilology: Two case studies

    Carlo GinzburgARTICLEGlobal Intellectual History2017Cited by: 2References: 5

    The paper focuses on two cases, each of them centered on two individuals, who lived approximately at the same time, between the 16th and the 17th centuries. The first, Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca, is famous. The second, John David Rhys, is known only to scholars. Garcilaso, the son of a Spanish soldier and an Inca princess, analyzed his mother’s tongue relying upon his father’s tongue, which he used in his historical writings. John Rhys, born i…