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A summer with Pascal / Antoine Compagnon ; translated by Catherine Porter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Compagnon, Antoine, 1950- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Été avec Pascal. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.
- Pascal, Blaise.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Blaise Pascal is a marquee name, yet little read outside France. Antoine Compagnon provides an ideal introduction to one of the great intellects, contextualizing Pascal in his own time and offering insightful readings of the Pensées and the Provincial Letters. Compagnon proves a welcoming guide to Pascal's challenging and rewarding thought.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on the Translation
- Preface
- 1 “That Terrifying Genius”
- 2 “Heel of a Shoe”
- 3 Amor Sui
- 4 “Mistress of Error and Falsehood”
- 5 “The Life of Monsieur Pascal”
- 6 “The Queen of the World”
- 7 “On the Art of Persuasion”
- 8 Tyranny
- 9 Casuistry
- 10 The Father
- 11 “I Find It Fitting That Copernicus’s Opinion Not Be Closely Analyzed”
- 12 Pascal and the Marxists
- 13 “The Eternal Silence of Those Infinite Spaces Terrifies Me”
- 14 Gradation
- 15 Violence and Truth
- 16 “Greatness of Establishment, Respect of Establishment”
- 17 “Thought Escaped”
- 18 “He Is Neither Angel nor Beast, but Man”
- 19 The Libertines
- 20 “Joy, Joy, Joy, Tears of Joy”
- 21 Pascal’s Method
- 22 The “Sublime Misanthropist”
- 23 “A King without Diversions”
- 24 The Three Orders
- 25 “The Heart Has Its Reasons”
- 26 “It Is Not in Montaigne”
- 27 The Three Concupiscences
- 28 The Mystery of Predestination
- 29 The Mystery of the Holy Thorn
- 30 The Middle Ground
- 31 Double Thoughts
- 32 “What Is the Self?”
- 33 Village Queens and False Windows
- 34 “Working for What Is Uncertain”
- 35 “Infinite Nothingness”
- 36 Private Vice, Public Good
- 37 “You Would Not Be Seeking Me if You Had Not Found Me”
- 38 “The Hidden God”
- 39 Geometrical Mind, Intuitive Mind
- 40 “L’honnête Homme”
- 41 M. de Mons, Louis de Montalte, Amos Dettonville, Salomon de Tultie
- Works Cited
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780674296619
- 0674296613
- 9780674296626
- 0674296621
- OCLC:
- 1428259243
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