Pensees
by Blaise Pascal
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- Hardcover
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- Fine/No Dust Jacket [as issued]
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket [as issued]. Navy blue leather binding, titles stamped in gilt on spine with decorations on spine and covers stamped in gilt, ribbed spine, navy blue moire endpapers, sewn in ribbon marker, all edges gilt, color frontispiece. Introduction by T.S. Eliot. Part of Franklin Library's Collection of "The 100 Greatest Books of All Time". The foredge of the text block has a minor scuff mark on the gilt otherwise fine.
Synopsis
'If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural’ Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and—above all—theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal’s analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in God’s grace. This masterly translation conveys Pascal’s disarmingly personal tone and captures all the fire and passion of the original. Also contained in this volume are a comparison between different editions, appendices and a bibliography.
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- Title
- Pensees
- Author
- Blaise Pascal
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket [as issued]
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1979
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