L'immaginazione secondo Pascal: un pharmakon paradossale per l'apologetica

The history of modern philosophy has often counted Pascal amongst the sworn enemies of the imagination. More recent philosophical studies, however, leading beyond the rationalism that once ruled supreme, highlight the com­plexity of Pascal's destructive-constructive relation to fantasy, from ph...

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Main Author: Steeves, Nicolas 1973- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:Italian
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Published: 2025
In: Gregorianum
Year: 2025, Volume: 106, Issue: 2, Pages: 371-392
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
NAB Fundamental theology
NBE Anthropology
NCA Ethics
Further subjects:B Paradox
B Blaise Pascal
B Imagination
B Fantasy
B Apologetics
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Summary:The history of modern philosophy has often counted Pascal amongst the sworn enemies of the imagination. More recent philosophical studies, however, leading beyond the rationalism that once ruled supreme, highlight the com­plexity of Pascal's destructive-constructive relation to fantasy, from physics to philosophy to Christian apologetics. Derrida's metaphor of the pharmakon helps welcome this complexity and outline a few principles and guidelines for a renewed apologetics that would serve to announce the Gospel today, in the midst of the equally great complexity of our postmodern times. This should be a central task for fundamental theology.
ISSN:0017-4114
Contains:Enthalten in: Gregorianum