{"product_id":"a-historical-approach-to-casuistry-norms-and-exceptions-in-a-comparative-perspective-9781350168879","title":"A Historical Approach to Casuistry Norms and Exceptions in a Comparative Perspective","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarlo Ginzburg \u003c\/b\u003eis Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Emeritus Professor of History of European Cultures at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy.\u003cb\u003eLucio Biasiori \u003c\/b\u003eis Research Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. His interests encompass early modern religious and cultural history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGinzburg has assembled some of the world’s leading thinkers to explore casuistry as a fundamental and surprisingly neglected approach to intractable dilemmas and paradoxes throughout history.  Traversing disciplines and centuries, this volume will change the way we think and the way we think about thinking. * Matthew C. Mirow, Professor of Law, Florida International University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eAs these wide-ranging essays demonstrate, casuistry is hardly so simple as normally believed, but a style of thought in which norms and exceptions are mutually constitutive, dialogically and dialectically interrelated. Time after time, we observe how established authorities in one domain or another (law, medicine, theology; Europe, Asia, the Americas) responded to deviations from what they prescribed and expected, struggling to defuse the challenge these anomalies present by construing them -- often with extraordinary ingenuity -- as exceptions that prove, rather than threaten the rule. Each chapter makes for fascinating reading, as does the volume as a whole. * Bruce Lincoln, Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History of Religions, University of Chicago, USA *\u003cbr\u003eBesides the adventure, provocation, and irony, through each essay we find a wonderful appreciation of the epistemic richness of ethics when it dares to consider the particular as well as the exceptional. The book is a significant contribution to the field. * Journal of Jesuit Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface, \u003ci\u003eCarlo Ginzburg (University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)\u003c\/i\u003e  Acknowledgments  \u003cb\u003ePart I Casuistry and Medicine across Time and Space\u003c\/b\u003e 1. The Royal College of Paediatrics 2004 \/ 2015 Guidance for Decision Making at The End of Life : A Framework for Casuistry,\u003ci\u003e Avishai Sarfatti (Oxford University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. The Medical Case Narrative in Pre-Modern Europe and China: Comparative History of an Epistemic Genre, \u003ci\u003eGianna Pomata (Johns Hopkins University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II Religious Anomalies in the Ancient and Medieval World\u003c\/b\u003e 3. (Un)written Laws and Transgressions in Ancient Greece and Rome, \u003ci\u003eJan Bremmer (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. The Case About Jesus: (Counter-)History and Casuistry in Toledot Yeshu, \u003ci\u003eDaniel Barbu (CNRS, UMR 8584, Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes, Paris, France)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III Legal Casuistry between Judaism and Islam \u003c\/b\u003e 5. “I signed but I did not say”: The Status of Chess in Early Modern Judaism, \u003ci\u003eAndrew Berns (University of South Carolina, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e 6. The Many Roads to Justice: A Case of Adultery in Sixteenth-Century Cairo, \u003ci\u003eCaterina Bori (Università di Bologna, Italy)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Islamic Casuistry and Galenic Medicine: Hashish, Coffee and the Emergence of the Jurist-Physician, \u003ci\u003eIslam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart IV Casuistry between Reformation and Counter Reformation\u003c\/b\u003e 8. The Exception as Norm: Casuistry of Suicide in John Donne’s Biathanatos, \u003ci\u003eLucio Biasiori (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. “Whether ’tis lawful for a man to beat his wife”: Casuistical Exercises in Late-Stuart and Early-Hanoverian England, \u003ci\u003eGiovanni Tarantino (University of Western Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart V Norms and Exceptions in the Early Modern Global World (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)\u003c\/b\u003e 10. Indians’ Forced Labour as Case for Exception in Seventeenth-Century Colonial America, \u003ci\u003eAngela Ballone (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Morality and Empire: Cases, Norms and Exceptions in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Asia, \u003ci\u003eSanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  12. An ‘Our Father’ for the Hottentots: Religion, Language and the Consensus Gentium, \u003ci\u003eMartin Mulsow (Universität Erfurt, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart VI Inside and Outside Port-Royal \u003c\/b\u003e 13. Port-Royal at grips with its own casuistry and Pascal’s stand, \u003ci\u003eSilvia Berti \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy)\u003c\/i\u003e 14. Casuistry and Irony: Some Reflections on Pascal’s  Provinciales, \u003ci\u003eCarlo Ginzburg (University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e Sources Bibliography","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084831584599,"sku":"9781350168879","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350168879.jpg?v=1762207296","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-historical-approach-to-casuistry-norms-and-exceptions-in-a-comparative-perspective-9781350168879","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}