Nevertheless
Machiavelli, Pascal
Carlo Ginzburg
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Nevertheless
Machiavelli, Pascal
Carlo Ginzburg
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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.
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- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Machiavelli, the Exception and the Rule
- 2. Becoming Machiavelli: A New Reading of the Ghiribizzi al Soderini
- 3. Pontano, Machiavelli and Prudence
- 4. Intricate Readings: Machiavelli, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas
- 5. Moulding the People: Machiavelli, Michelangelo
- 6. Machiavelli and the Antiquarians
- 7. Machiavelli, Galileo and the Censors
- 8. Virtù, Justice, Force: On Machiavelli and Some of His Readers
- 9. Oblique Words: In the Workshop of the Provincial Letters
- 10. Ironic and Ambiguous Euclid: Two Notes in Connection with Bayle
- Appendix: Reading between the Lines – A Short Note on The Leopard
- Notes
- Name Index