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

Melzer, Sara E.

ISBN 10: 0520055403 / ISBN 13: 9780520055407

Verlag: University of California Press, 1986

In. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ria9780520055407_new

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"Here is a unique and penetrating postmodernist invitation to reread Pascal's Pensées. 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 Pensées's hypothetical final form. She rightly and deeply understands Pascal's writing--écriture--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 Pensées 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

 

Über die Autorin bzw. den 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.

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Titel: Discourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal's ...
Verlag: University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New