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Pascal, Blaise

 
9780199540365: Pensées and Other Writings
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ISBN 10: 0199540365 ISBN 13: 9780199540365
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2008

Sinossi

For much of his life Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in its intended form. Instead, he left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These were to become known as the Pensées, and they occupy a crucial place in Western philosophy and religious writing.

Pascal's general intention was to confound scepticism about metaphysical questions. Some of the Pensées are fully developed literary reflections on the human condition,, some contradict others, and some remain jottings whose meaning will never be clear. The most important are among the most powerful aphorisms about human experience and behaviour ever written in any language.

This translation is the only one based on the Pensées as Pascal left them. It includes the principal dossiers classified by Pascal, as well as the essential portion of the important Writings on Grace. A detailed thematic index gives access to Pascal's areas of concern, while the selection of texts and the introduction help to show why Pascal changed the plan of his projected work before abandoning the book he might have written.
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Informazioni sull?autore

Honor Levi is a teacher at St Leonard's School, St Andrew's, Fife. Anthony Levi is a retired Professor of French at St Andrews.

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Editore
OUP Oxford
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0199540365
ISBN 13 
9780199540365
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
320
Redattore
Levi Anthony
Contatto del produttore
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ISBN 10:  0192836552 ISBN 13:  9780192836557
Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1999
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