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Availability:In StockContributor:Blaise Pascal, A. J. Krailsheimer (Translator), A. J. Krailsheimer (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1995-12-01Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140446456ISBN-10:140446451UPC:9780140446456Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, ReligiousBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:7.82 x 5.08 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC3D4GW474
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 Pense?s 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 -...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140446456ISBN-10:140446451UPC:9780140446456Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, ReligiousBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:7.82 x 5.08 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC3D4GW474
Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont in 1623, the son of a government official. During his short life he left his mark on mathematics, physics, religious controversy and literature. A convert to Jansenism, he engaged with gusto in a controversy with the Jesuits, which gave rise to his Lettres Provincialeson which, with the Pensées, his literary fame chiefly rests. A remarkable stylist, he is...
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