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024 7 _a10.4159/harvard.9780674182912
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780674182912
035 _a(DE-B1597)248646
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040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aB1903
_b.N45 2014
072 7 _aBIO015000
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082 0 4 _a230/.20924
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aNelson, Robert J.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aPascal :
_bAdversary and Advocate /
_cRobert J. Nelson.
250 _aReprint 2014
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©1981
300 _a1 online resource (286 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_tCONTENTS --
_tINTRODUCTION --
_tPART I. The Adversary --
_t1. ADVERSARIAL BELIEVER, ADVERSARIAL MAN OF SCIENCE --
_t2. THE ADVERSARIAL BELIEVER AND HIS FAMILY --
_t3. THE ADVERSARIAL BELIEVER AND THE WORLD --
_tP A R T II. Transition --
_t4.THE CONVERT1 --
_t5. THE CONVERT'S AGONY --
_t6. THE CONVERT AS PRIVATE ADVERSARY --
_t7. THE CONVERT AS PUBLIC ADVERSARY: PROVINCIAL LETTERS 1-16 --
_tPART III. The Advocate --
_t8. THE FINAL PROVINCIAL LETTERS --
_t9. THE LETTERS TO THE ROANNEZ --
_t10. THE THOUGHTS --
_tCONCLUSION: ADVERSARY AND ADVOCATE IN THE FINAL WRITINGS --
_tNOTES --
_tBIBLIOGRAPHY --
_tINDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe life of the paradoxical seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician is examined here along three axes--psychological, theological, and linguistic--to present the first rounded portrayal of the querulous, intense, ever-committed Pascal. In drawing this portrait, the author restores Pascal to the general reader after twenty years of scholarship that has embroiled this historic thinker in academic quarrels. Robert Nelson confronts the contradictions in Pascal's life and personality: intensely religious according to the demands of his time, yet simultaneously committed to rigorous scientific inquiry, no matter where it led; fascinated by rebellion, yet deeply dependent on the authority of father, spiritual adviser, church, and science. Mr. Nelson sees the resolution of these personal dilemmas in Pascal's growing interest in language--the essential relation between word and object, signifier and signified, which form a style of "Pascalian linguistics" different from those of Descartes or Port Royal. Through the scrutiny of Pascal's biography and analysis of the entire body of his writing, Nelson reveals Pascal the man, the scientist, the theologian, and the literary genius.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aAufsatzsammlung.
650 0 _aLiteratur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft.
650 0 _aLiteratur.
650 0 _aLiterature.
650 4 _aPHILOSOPHY / General.
650 4 _aPascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.
650 4 _aRELIGION / General.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674182912
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674182912
856 4 2 _3Cover
_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674182912/original
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