Pascal : : Adversary and Advocate /

Pascal : : Adversary and Advocate / / Robert J. Nelson.

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...

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Nelson, Robert J.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1981
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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