Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal

Nevertheless' comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma (,) in the subtitle: Machiavelli, Pascal. Is this comma a conjunction or a disjunction? In fact, both. Ginzburg approaches Machiavelli's work from the persp...

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1. Verfasser: Ginzburg, Carlo 1939- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Elliott, Gregory 1960- (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Verso [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Verso world history series
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Zusammenfassung:Nevertheless' comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma (,) in the subtitle: Machiavelli, Pascal. Is this comma a conjunction or a disjunction? In fact, both. Ginzburg approaches Machiavelli's work from the perspective of casuistry, or case-based ethical reasoning. For as Machiavelli indicated through his repeated use of the adverb nondimanco ("nevertheless"), there is an exception to every rule. Such a perspective may seem to echo the traditional image of Machiavelli as a cynical, "machiavellian" thinker. But a close analysis of Machiavelli the reader, as well as of the ways in which some of Machiavelli's most perceptive readers read his work, throws a different light on Machiavelli the writer. The same hermeneutic strategy inspires the essays on the Provinciales, Pascal's ferocious attack against Jesuitical casuistry. Casuistry vs anti-casuistry; Machiavelli's secular attitude towards religion vs Pascal's deep religiosity. We are confronted, apparently, with two completely different worlds. But Pascal read Machiavelli, and reflected deeply upon his work. A belated, contemporary echo of this reading can unveil the complex relationship between Machiavelli and Pascal - their divergences as well as their unexpected convergences
Beschreibung:Published in Italian as: Nondimanco : Machiavelli, Pascal. Milano : Adelphi edizioni, [2018]
Beschreibung:xiv, 258 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Porträts (schwarz-weiß)
ISBN:9781839760143

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