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PLAYING WITH TRUTH
LANGUAGE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION IN PASCAL'S PENSEES |
| By: |
Nicholas Hammond |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198158939 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198158936 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 June, 1994 |
| Series: |
Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
This is the first comprehensive work on Pascal to be devoted to his use of key terms depicting the central subject of the Pensees, the human condition. Giving and in-depth account of many important critical controversies of the day, as well as offering a novel and provocative insight into the persuasive purpose of the Pensees, Hammond explores such fundamental notions as language and order. |
| Synopsis: |
Pascal's Pensees is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest masterpieces of seventeenth-century France, an unfinished work which has both inspired and perplexed readers in succeeding centuries. Playing with Truth is the first comprehensive book on Pascal to be devoted to his use of key terms depicting the central subject of the Pensees, the human condition. Nicholas Hammond explores such fundamental notions as language and order, proceeding with a detailed analysis of the words inconstance, ennui, inquietude, bonheur, felicite, and justice. Developing and challenging the most recent scholarship about the text, Hammond identifies the crucial notion of play (as exemplified in the term divertissement) which underlies all these words and applies his findings to the notoriously unstable concept of truth. Through the fragmentary nature of the Pensees and the shifting meaning of terms, Pascal is shown to be deliberately engaging the reader in a game to make sense of the text.Giving an in-depth account of a many important critical controversies of the day, as well as offering a novel and provocative insight into the persuasive purpose of the Pensees, this study will be of interest to specialist and undergraduate readers alike. |
| Illustrations: |
2 plates |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
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