Historian an Investigating Magistrate. Carlo Ginzburg’s “Circumstantial Paradigm” Marginalia

Abstract

The main thesis of the text oscillates around the believe that the comparison of a historian with a judge is so called locus origins of the reflections on history. An Illustration of this statement are for example Carl Ginzburg’s “paradigm of evidence,” Robert Collinwood‘s combination of an investigating magistrate and a historian or Marc Bloch’s compilation of historian’s tasks with a role of the judge, or finally analysis of Paul Ricoeur’s problem of truth and justice.