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Discourses of the Fall

Study of Pascal's "Pensees"

  • Hardback
  • 184 pages
  • Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

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"Here is a unique and penetrating postmodernist invitation to reread Pascal's Pensees. With a full control on two centuries of Pascalian hermeneutics, Sara Melzer leads her readers into a passionate quest far beyond the worn-out search for a paleontological reconstruction of the Pensees's hypothetical final form. She rightly and deeply understands Pascal's writing ecriture - as the complex story of the "Fall of Truth into language." Such a perspective gives to Pascal's fragments a rejuvenated life, a newness, a dramatic and powerful voice for our own culture. In brief, a welcome breeze of fresh air in the Pascalian world!" (Edouard Morot-Sir, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). "By approaching Pascal's Pensees from the point of view of contemporary critical theory, Melzer sheds new light on this well-known work. Her argument is clear, lucid, and cogent. She has a firm grasp of the major issues at stake in debates among literary critics. I think this is an important work that will be of interest not only to Pascal specialists but also to people who work in the general area of literary theory...One of the genuine strengths of the book is the author's ability to discern the theological implications of issues that preoccupy literary theorists.
This is particularly important at a time when students of theology and religion are becoming more and more interested in literary theory. They will find this analysis of Pascal very suggestive." (Mark Taylor, Williams College).

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  • Author

    Sara E. Melzer

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

  • Published

    April 1986

  • Weight

    373g

  • Page Count

    184

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520055407

  • ISBN-10

    0520055403

  • Eden Code

    1927582

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