Discourses of the Fall - A Study of Pascal''s Pensees

Informationen zum Autor Sara E. Melzer is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California! Los Angeles. She is the author of Discourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal's Pensées and coeditor of From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France . Zusammenfassung With a full control on two centuries of Pascalian hermeneutics, the author leads her readers into a passionate quest far beyond the worn-out search for a paleontological reconstruction of the Pensees' hypothetical final form. She rightly and deeply understands Pascal's writing ecriture - as the complex story of the 'Fall of Truth into language'.

Product details

• Authors: Sara E. Melzer, Melzer Sara E.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.1986
• EAN: 9780520055407
• ISBN: 978-0-520-05540-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Study of Pascal's Pensees
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church