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Inactualités de Montesquieu: Valéry, Caillois, Starobinski

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Montesquieu occupa, nella storia del pensiero francese, una posizione di compromesso tra la prospezione e la retrospezione. Sebbene di nobili origini egli contesta, con il suo relativismo, i privilegi di casta; paladino della sincerità e della trasparenza, rivendica il diritto all’opacità, unica condizione di libertà. Di qui la sua posizione «inattuale», raccolta da tre grandi intellettuali del Novecento: Paul Valéry, Roger Caillois, Jean Starobinski. Sarà lo spazio liminare della prefazione alle proprie opere ad assicurare a Montesquieu  un certo margine di libertà di espressione;  similmente, sarà attraverso un intervento d’occasione – scritto prefatorio o conferenza –  che i tre intellettuali si pronunceranno sull’inattualità di Montesquieu andando così, contro lo spirito dei tempi, a legittimare la propria.  Montesquieu occupies, in the French historical thinking, a compromise position between prospection and retrospection. Though he was an aristocratic he combated, with his relativism, the caste privileges; as a upholder of sincerity and transparency, he claims the right to opacity, as the unique condition for freedom. Hence his «inactual» position, wich has been inherited by three major intellectuals of Twentieth century: Paul Valéry, Roger Caillois, Jean Starobinski. As the liminal space of preface guarantees Montesquieu a certain freedom of expression, it is through some occasional interventions – prefatory discourse, or conference – that the three intellectuals intervene about Montesquieu’s inactuality, thus legitimizing, against  the spirit of the times, their own position.
Title: Inactualités de Montesquieu: Valéry, Caillois, Starobinski
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Montesquieu occupa, nella storia del pensiero francese, una posizione di compromesso tra la prospezione e la retrospezione.
Sebbene di nobili origini egli contesta, con il suo relativismo, i privilegi di casta; paladino della sincerità e della trasparenza, rivendica il diritto all’opacità, unica condizione di libertà.
Di qui la sua posizione «inattuale», raccolta da tre grandi intellettuali del Novecento: Paul Valéry, Roger Caillois, Jean Starobinski.
Sarà lo spazio liminare della prefazione alle proprie opere ad assicurare a Montesquieu  un certo margine di libertà di espressione;  similmente, sarà attraverso un intervento d’occasione – scritto prefatorio o conferenza –  che i tre intellettuali si pronunceranno sull’inattualità di Montesquieu andando così, contro lo spirito dei tempi, a legittimare la propria.
  Montesquieu occupies, in the French historical thinking, a compromise position between prospection and retrospection.
Though he was an aristocratic he combated, with his relativism, the caste privileges; as a upholder of sincerity and transparency, he claims the right to opacity, as the unique condition for freedom.
Hence his «inactual» position, wich has been inherited by three major intellectuals of Twentieth century: Paul Valéry, Roger Caillois, Jean Starobinski.
As the liminal space of preface guarantees Montesquieu a certain freedom of expression, it is through some occasional interventions – prefatory discourse, or conference – that the three intellectuals intervene about Montesquieu’s inactuality, thus legitimizing, against  the spirit of the times, their own position.

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