Cargando…
Pascal : Adversary and Advocate /
The life of the paradoxical seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician is examined here along three axes--psychological, theological, and linguistic--to present the first rounded portrayal of the querulous, intense, ever-committed Pascal. In drawing this portrait, the author restores Pascal t...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2013]
|
| Edición: | Reprint 2014 |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I. The Adversary
- 1. ADVERSARIAL BELIEVER, ADVERSARIAL MAN OF SCIENCE
- 2. THE ADVERSARIAL BELIEVER AND HIS FAMILY
- 3. THE ADVERSARIAL BELIEVER AND THE WORLD
- P A R T II. Transition
- 4.THE CONVERT1
- 5. THE CONVERT'S AGONY
- 6. THE CONVERT AS PRIVATE ADVERSARY
- 7. THE CONVERT AS PUBLIC ADVERSARY: PROVINCIAL LETTERS 1-16
- PART III. The Advocate
- 8. THE FINAL PROVINCIAL LETTERS
- 9. THE LETTERS TO THE ROANNEZ
- 10. THE THOUGHTS
- CONCLUSION: ADVERSARY AND ADVOCATE IN THE FINAL WRITINGS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX