Description du projet
Un regard plus attentif sur le père de la gestion des risques
Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), l’un des philosophes naturels les plus renommés ayant été emprisonné et jugé pendant l’Inquisition romaine, a laissé derrière lui un récit détaillé de son malheur. Les idées de Cardano, couvrant de nombreuses disciplines telles que les mathématiques, la médecine, l’astrologie ou encore la philosophie naturelle et morale, ont été largement diffusées et lues dans la dernière partie du 16e siècle. En dépit de la diversité des sujets, les projets et les centres d’intérêt de Cardano sous-tendaient un principe unique: les personnes vivent dans un réseau de danger, que ce soit pour cause de maladie et d’accidents corporels ou pour des événements fortuits. Le projet THREAT, financé par l’UE, compte mettre en place une anatomie des menaces dans les travaux de Cardano, analyser sa perspective sur la philosophie naturelle en tant que réponse à la menace, et examiner la manière dont la censure par l’Inquisition romaine a pu représenter une critique des approches d’expertise séculaires liées à la menace.
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Throughout Europe and the Americas, we find the expert knowledge of traditional state and scientific institutions—the expert management of risk and otherness—doubted and undermined by groups questioning its hidden motives and meanings. The current project addresses the deep history at play in our conceptions of threat and individual agency in managing threat. It will examine the works of Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), as well as his Roman Inquisition documents, in order to chart an early-modern transformation of great significance: the shift in the management of threat from spiritual expertise to secular expertise. Girolamo Cardano was the most widely-read natural philosopher of the latter sixteenth century. His literary output and fame stretched across numerous disciplines—medicine, astrology, natural philosophy, moral philosophy, mathematics—and his ideas continued to exert major influence well into the seventeenth century. As diverse as his projects and interests were, a common theme unites them: the individual, by Cardano’s reckoning, lives in a network of danger, from bodily illness and accident, to chance events, to faults of intellect and memory, to the vagaries of human passion. In a recent study of his Inquisition trial, I have examined the place of Catholic doctrine in his astrology and celestial physics, and the key points of criticism leveled at Cardano by the Holy Office. This project would build from that foundation, significantly expanding and deepening its results. Assisted by tools from the digital-humanities, it will establish an anatomy of threat in Cardano’s work, analyze his views of natural philosophy as a response to threat, and examine how his censorship by the Roman Inquisition represented a criticism of secular expert approaches to threat.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
30123 Venezia
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