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Nevertheless
- Machiavelli, Pascal
Engelsk Paperback
Nevertheless
- Machiavelli, Pascal
Engelsk Paperback

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<i>Nevertheless </i>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? <br><br>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 <i>nondimanco</i> ("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 <i>Provinciales</i>, Pascal’s ferocious attack against Jesuitical casuistry. <br><br>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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9781839760143
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1839760141
Udg. Dato:
25 jan 2022
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
234mm
Højde:
219mm
Forlag:
Verso Books
Oplagsdato:
25 jan 2022
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