Method and Evidence in The Egalitarian Sublime: From Microhistory to Microcritique (following Carlo Ginzburg)


I’ve uploaded this edited extract from The Egalitarian Sublime (2019) to give a sense of the method I used in that book. Microhistory, and Carlo Ginzburg’s work in particular, helped me develop the method of microcritique, designed to cover the vast field of the sublime without reducing it to a single overview or list of fragments. It is a good time to be returning to this method, since it came out of similar difficulties – and led to similar practices – as the question of pragmatic method from my current work.

Method and Evidence in The Egalitarian Sublime: From Microhistory to Microcritique (following Carlo Ginzburg)