Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal Ginzburg Carlo
Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal Ginzburg Carlo From the master of micro-history a reconstruction of two contrasting early-modern thinkersNevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal.…
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Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal Ginzburg Carlo
From the master of micro-history a reconstruction of two contrasting early-modern thinkersNevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. Is this comma a conjunction or a disjunction?In fact, both. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma (, ) in the subtitle: Machiavelli, Pascal.
For as Machiavelli indicated through his repeated use of the adverb nondimanco (nevertheless), there is an exception to every rule. Ginzburg approaches Machiavelli's work from the perspective of casuistry, or case-based ethical reasoning. 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