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Author : Hugh McCullough Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Concordance to Pascal's Les Provinciales written by Hugh McCullough Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis A. MacKenzie
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780917786631
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Pascal's Lettres Provinciales written by Louis A. MacKenzie and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erec R. Koch
Publisher : Rookwood Press
ISBN 13 : 9781886365056
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Pascal and Rhetoric written by Erec R. Koch and published by Rookwood Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135915903
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Volition, Rhetoric, and Emotion in the Work of Pascal written by Thomas Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study identifies and analyzes a compelling theory and practice of persuasion that integrates the complexity of human desire. It demonstrates how the philosophical component in Pascal's description of the will makes a seamless integration into a vehicle of persuasion and poetics, providing a privileged viewpoint for understanding the author's complete works, arguing that the notion of will is of fundamental importance in Pascal's anthropology as well as in his rhetoric. This avenue of interpretation is both fruitful and difficult, because the word "volonte" means very different things in Pascal and in modern French. Beginning by contextualizing the notion of 'volonte' and explaining its expanded use in the seventeenth-century lexicon, the author then endeavors to show that Pascal borrows an essentially Augustinian paradigm of desire to create a depiction of the will divided against itself, surreptitiously yearning for what its bearer does not want.
Author : D. Adamson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230377025
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Blaise Pascal written by D. Adamson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-12-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chronological survey explores Pascal's (162362) achievement as mathematician, physicist and religious thinker; it also has a chapter on his life. His work on conic sections, the probability calculus, number theory, cycloid curves and hydrostatics is considered in detail. Analyses of the Provincial Letters and the Thoughts bring out the many distinctive features, thematicnn and technical, of each text. Pascal's lesser known works are also studied. There is a chapter on the Wager argument. A wide-ranging bibliography completes the book.
Author : Richard Parish
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191618810
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing written by Richard Parish and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'le christianisme est étrange' - Pascal, Pensées Pascal's assertion that 'Christianity is strange', provides the theme for Richard Parish's exploration of Catholic particularity, as it was expressed in the writing of the French seventeenth century. This was a period of quite exceptional fertility in a range of genres: apologetics, sermons, devotional manuals, catechisms, martyr tragedies, lyric poetry, polemic and spiritual autobiography. Parish examines a broad cross-section of this corpus with reference to the topics of apologetics, physicality, language, discernment, polemics and salvation; and draws evidence both from canonical figures (Pascal, Bossuet, Fénelon, St François de Sales, Madame Guyon) and from less easily-available texts. Parish aims to consider all those distinctive features that the heritage of the Catholic Reformation brought to the surface in France, and to do so in support of the numerous ways in which Christian doctrine could be understood as being strange: it is by turns contrary to expectations, paradoxical, divisive, carnal and inexpressible. These features are exploited imaginatively in the more conventional literary forms, didactically in pulpit oratory and empirically in the accounts of personal spiritual experience. In addition they are manifested polemically in debates surrounding penance, authority, inspiration and eschatology, and often push orthodoxy to its limits and beyond in the course of their articulation. This volume provides an unsettling account of a belief system to which early-modern France often unquestioningly subscribed, and shows how the element of cultural assimilation of Catholic Christianity into much of Western Europe only tenuously contains a subversive and counter-intuitive creed. The degree to which that remains the case will be for the reader to decide.
Author : Mary Ann Caws
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780237685
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Blaise Pascal written by Mary Ann Caws and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people have had as many influences on as many different fields as true Renaissance man Blaise Pascal. At once a mathematician, philosopher, theologian, physicist, and engineer, Pascal’s discoveries, experiments, and theories helped usher in a modern world of scientific thought and methodology. In this singular book on this singular genius, distinguished scholar Mary Ann Caws explores the rich contributions of this extraordinary thinker, interweaving his writings and discoveries with an account of his life and career and the wider intellectual world of his time. Caws takes us back to Pascal’s youth, when he was a child prodigy first engaging mathematics through the works of mathematicians such as Father Mersenne. She describes his early scientific experiments and his construction of mechanical calculating machines; she looks at his correspondence with important thinkers such as René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat; she surveys his many inventions, such as the first means of public transportation in Paris; and she considers his later religious exaltations in works such as the “Memorial.” Along the way, Caws examines Pascal’s various modes of writing—whether he is arguing with the strict puritanical modes of church politics, assuming the personality of a naïve provincial trying to understand the Jesuitical approach, offering pithy aphorisms in the Pensées, or meditating on thinking about thinking itself. Altogether, this book lays side by side many aspects of Pascal’s life and work that are seldom found in a single volume: his religious motivations and faith, his scientific passions, and his practical savvy. The result is a comprehensive but easily approachable account of a fascinating and influential figure.
Author : George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521300087
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance written by George Alexander Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index.
Author : Paul J. Griffiths
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813233844
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Why Read Pascal? written by Paul J. Griffiths and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) is known in the English-speaking world principally for the wager (an argument that it is rational to do what will affect belief in God and irrational not to), and, more generally, for the Pensées, a collection of philosophical and theological fragments of unusual emotional and intellectual intensity collected and published after his death. He thought and wrote, however, about much more than this: mathematics; physics; grace, freedom, and predestination; the nature of the church; the Christian life; what it is to write and read; the order of things; the nature and purpose of human life; and more. He was among the polymaths of the seventeenth century, and among the principal apologists of his time for the Catholic faith, against both its Protestant opponents and its secular critics. Why Read Pascal? engages all the major topics of Pascal's theological and philosophical writing. It provides discussion of Pascal's literary style, his linked understandings of knowledge and of the various orders of things, his anthropology (with special attention to his presentation of affliction, death, and boredom), his politics, and his understanding of the relation between Christianity and Judaism. Pascal emerges as a literary stylist of a high order, a witty and polemical writer (never have the Jesuits been more thoroughly eviscerated), and, perhaps above all else, as someone concerned to show to Christianity's cultured despisers that the fabric of their own lives implies the truth of Christianity if only they can be brought to look at what their lives are like. Why Read Pascal? is the first book in English in a generation to engage all the principal themes in Pascal's theology and philosophy. The book takes Pascal seriously as an interlocutor and as a contributor of continuing relevance to Catholic thought; but it also offers criticisms of some among the positions he takes, showing, in doing so, how lively his writing remains for us now.
Author : Terry Silver
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ISBN 13 : 9780876501658
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Reference Sources, 1982 written by Terry Silver and published by . This book was released on 1984-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Buford Norman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Portraits of Thought written by Buford Norman and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gabriel Peignot
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
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Author : Charles B. Osburn
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Research and Reference Guide to French Studies written by Charles B. Osburn and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Author : Hugh McCullough Davidson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book A Concordance to Pascal's Les Provinciales written by Hugh McCullough Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John R Cole
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814715109
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Pascal written by John R Cole and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searches for the man Blaise who has been shadowed into near invisibility by the hero Pascal, the 17th-century French scientist who underwent a conversion in midlife and became saintly. Knits the two halves of his life together by examining his upbringing and family relationships, finding in his love for God a substitute or at least compensation for the loss of his parents. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : David Lee Rubin
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Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Convergences written by David Lee Rubin and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 14 essays, Convergences examines some of the most notable authors of 17th-century France. Theatre was the foremost genre, and essays by Odette de Mourgues, Terence Cave, Judd D.Hubert and Marie-Odile Sweetser discuss such problems as tonality and register, structure and thought, self-reflexivity and purpose in masterpieces from Cinna to L'Avare. Jules Brody and Robert T.Corum aim to advance the understanding of the Fables of Jean de la Fontaine and baroque consolations by applying and refining the concepts of intertextuality and generic modulation. Charles G.S.Williams rehabilitates a major text made problematic by a subtle technique that includes blending fact and fiction.
Author : H. Gaston Hall
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815622758
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)
Download or read book A Critical Bibliography of French Literature written by H. Gaston Hall and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1983-02-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard A. Brooks, general editor, v.
