Réflexions sur le principe d‘asymétrie. Qu’est-ce que l’ethnophilologie ?

Abstract

The following note seeks to return to the singular methodology successfully practiced by Carlo Ginzburg, which consists in putting into tension anonymous practices on the one hand and learned procedures, often inspired by philology, on the other. Two recent GC studies are specifically analyzed.

Keywords

• methodology of history
• heuristics
• hermeneutics
• philology