Pensees (Penguin Classics)

Pascal, Blaise

ISBN 10: 0140446451 / ISBN 13: 9780140446456

Published by Penguin Classics, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Pensees (Penguin Classics)

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in pscyhological, social, metaphysical and - above all - theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in God's grace.

About the Author:

Blaise Pascal (1623-62) left his mark on mathematics, physics, religious controversy and literature. A convert to Jansenism, he engaged in passionate debate with the Jesuits the results of which are the Lettres Provincales, on which, with Pensées, his fame now rests. He is regarded by many as the greatest of French prose stylists.
A J Krailsheimer was Tutor in French at Christ Church, Oxford and translated widely from the French.