Balance of Power. History, Rhetoric, and Proof

For decades, postmodern sceptics have argued that it is impossible to strictly distinguish between truth and fiction, and that history should be identified with rhetoric. But what kind of rhetoric are we talking about? Polemising with relativists, the famous historian Carlo Ginzburg shows that postmodern scepticism was inspired by the early work of F. Nietzsche On Truth and Untruth, in which rhetoric, contrary to Aristotle, was strongly opposed to proof.

Carlo Ginzburg. Balance of Power. History, Rhetoric, and Proof / Translated from Italian by Mikhail Velizhev; Scientific Editor Vsevolod Zelchenko. - M.: New Literary Observer, 2024.