an essay by Eugenio Garin, titled "Alla scoperta del 'diverso': i selvaggi americani e i saggi cinesi", in: Rinascite e Rivoluzioni - Movimenti culturali dal XIV al XVIII secolo. Laterza, Bari (1975).
posted by kalle b @ 12:24 PM
The Sober Cannibal (and the Drunken Christian)
In a still not definite future, I would like to teach a class on cultural relativism in antiquity and the early modern period. Here I'll put notes, ideas, images on this subject. The title of this blog comes from a famous passage in Moby Dick
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- Ishmael's paradox
- My problems with the Golden Age - part 2
- My problems with the Golden Age
- The more I find about Piero...
- Again on Piero di Cosimo
- On Primitivism
- Piero di Cosimo
- Herodotus and the cannibals
- A not so sober cannibal
- Oi barbaroi
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