Discourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal's Pensées

by Sara E. Melzer

Book Overview

"Here is a unique and penetrating postmodernist invitation to reread Pascal's Pens es. 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 Pens es's hypothetical final form. She rightly and deeply understands Pascal's writing-- criture--as the complex story of the "Fall of Truth into language." Such a perspective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520055403
• ISBN13: 9780520055407
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"