Summer With Pascal

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.

About the author

Antoine Compagnon, a member of the Académie française, is Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France. He is the author of Proust Between Two Centuries, Five Paradoxes of Modernity, A Summer with Montaigne, and numerous other books. His work has been translated into nineteen languages.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Antoine Compagnon, Compagnon Antoine, Catherine Porter
• Assisted by: Catherine Porter (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9780674295414
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29541-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, MATHEMATICS / General, SCIENCE / Physics / General, Philosophy, RELIGION / Theology, Mathematics, Theology, Physics, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought