Research Catalog

Title

Nevertheless : Machiavelli, Pascal / Carlo Ginzburg ; translation editor, Gregory Elliott.

Author

Ginzburg, Carlo

Publication

• London : Verso, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Elliott, Gregory

Description

xiv, 258 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Verso world history series

Uniform Title

• Essays. Selections. English
• Nondimanco. English.
• Verso world history series.

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subject

• Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 > Criticism and interpretation
• Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
• Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
• Provinciales (Pascal, Blaise)
• Casuistry > History
• Casuistry

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.
• Literary criticism.

Note

• Published in Italian as: Nondimanco : Machiavelli, Pascal. Milano : Adelphi edizioni, [2018].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Italian.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Machiavelli, the Exception and the Rule -- 2. Becoming Machiavelli: A New Reading of the Ghirihizzi 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. Virtu, 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.

Call Number

JFE 22-2591

ISBN

• 1839760141
• 9781839760143

LCCN

2021947716

OCLC

1243262776

Author

Ginzburg, Carlo, author.

Title

Nevertheless : Machiavelli, Pascal / Carlo Ginzburg ; translation editor, Gregory Elliott.

Publisher

London : Verso, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Verso world history series

Verso world history series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Translated from the Italian.

Added Author

Elliott, Gregory, translator, editor.

Added Title

Nondimanco. English.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781839760150

Research Call Number

JFE 22-2591